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title: Then Owen shut up the lion in the cave where the maiden had been in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Owen shut up the lion in the cave where the maiden had been in prison, and blocked up the front with stones. Who acts: Owen, maiden. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 20

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Then Owen shut up the lion in the cave where the maiden had been in prison, and blocked up the front with stones.

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**Who acts:** Owen, maiden · **What happens:** shut up, be, block up · **To what, where:** lion, cave, prison, front

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, maiden), 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:pg3454:32:20
# text = Then Owen shut up the lion in the cave where the maiden had been in prison, and blocked up the front with stones.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	blocked	block	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut up** | past | Owen | the lion |  | the cave | then |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the maiden |  |  | prison |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **block up** | past | Owen *not said here* | the front |  |  |  | with stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent front=Destination with stone=Theme |

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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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