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description: Full of this idea she walked up the marble staircase, and entered the little room where her sister-in-law sat, making clothes for her children. Who acts: lady, sister. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 59

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Full of this idea she walked up the marble staircase, and entered the little room where her sister-in-law sat, making clothes for her children.

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**Who acts:** lady, sister · **What happens:** walk up, enter, sit, make · **To what, where:** marble staircase, little room, clothes

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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 (lady, sister), 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:pg3454:19:59
# text = Full of this idea she walked up the marble staircase, and entered the little room where her sister-in-law sat, making clothes for her children.
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk up** | past | lady | the marble staircase |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory |
| 2 | **enter** | past | lady *not said here* | the little room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** | past | lady's sister in law |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | lady's sister in law *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  | for lady's children | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent clothes=Product for child=Beneficiary |

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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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