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title: The dwelling on each side were in the same unfinished condition, and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The dwelling on each side were in the same unfinished condition, and water trickled down the walls. Who acts: dwelling, water. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 57

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The dwelling on each side were in the same unfinished condition, and water trickled down the walls.

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**Who acts:** dwelling, water · **What happens:** be, trickle down · **To what, where:** same unfinished condition, walls

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwelling, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:19:57
# text = The dwelling on each side were in the same unfinished condition, and water trickled down the walls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	trickled	trickle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dwelling on each side |  |  | the same unfinished condition and water |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trickle down** | participle | water *not said here* | the walls |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wall=Source |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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