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title: But as soon as the lamps were lighted in the grand hall, where she w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as soon as the lamps were lighted in the grand hall, where she was sitting on a sofa covered with silk, the folding doors flew open, and he was sitting by her side the next minute. Who acts: princess, folding doors, husband. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Bo
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 4

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But as soon as the lamps were lighted in the grand hall, where she was sitting on a sofa covered with silk, the folding doors flew open, and he was sitting by her side the next minute.

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**Who acts:** princess, folding doors, husband · **What happens:** light, sit, cover, fly · **To what, where:** lamps, grand hall, sofa

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, folding doors, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:1124`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:13:4
# text = But as soon as the lamps were lighted in the grand hall, where she was sitting on a sofa covered with silk, the folding doors flew open, and he was sitting by her side the next minute.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	folding	folding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | past · passive |  | the lamps |  | the grand hall |  | soon *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | princess |  |  | a sofa |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a sofa *not said here* |  |  |  | with silk | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the folding doors |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | husband |  |  |  | minute | by princess's side | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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