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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 89

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Then Owen went to the maiden and placed his hand on her shoulder, and she guided him to a large room, painted all over with rich colours, and adorned with images of gold.

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**Who acts:** Owen, drawbridge · **What happens:** go, place, guide, paint, adorn, image · **To what, where:** maiden, hand, shoulder, horse, large room, gold

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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 (Owen, drawbridge), 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:pg3454:30:89
# text = Then Owen went to the maiden and placed his hand on her shoulder, and she guided him to a large room, painted all over with rich colours, and adorned with images of gold.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	guided	guide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Owen |  |  | the maiden | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to maiden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **place** | past | Owen *not said here* | horse's hand |  | drawbridge's shoulder |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **guide** | past | drawbridge | horse |  | a large room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to room=Destination |
| 4 | **paint** | past | Owen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rich colours; over *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with colour=Theme |
| 5 | **adorn** | participle | Owen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with images of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with image=Theme |
| 6 | **image** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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