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title: In the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, king Arthur sat on a seat of green rushes, over which was thrown a covering of flame-coloured silk, and a cushion of red satin lay under his elbow. Who acts: king Arthur, cushion. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 3

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In the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, king Arthur sat on a seat of green rushes, over which was thrown a covering of flame-coloured silk, and a cushion of red satin lay under his elbow.

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**Who acts:** king Arthur, cushion · **What happens:** sit, throw, lie · **To what, where:** centre, covering, elbow

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king Arthur, cushion), 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:pg3454:30:3
# text = In the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, king Arthur sat on a seat of green rushes, over which was thrown a covering of flame-coloured silk, and a cushion of red satin lay under his elbow.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Caerleon	Caerleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Usk	Usk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
45	under	under	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | king Arthur |  |  | the centre of the great hall in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk |  | on a seat of green rushes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
| 2 | **throw** | past · passive | king Arthur *not said here* | a covering of coloured silk |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: covering=Theme over which=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | past | a cushion of red satin |  |  | cushion's elbow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under elbow=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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