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title: At the end of an hour they arrived at a splendid castle, and Tephany… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of an hour they arrived at a splendid castle, and Tephany, who would not move, was lifted out and carried into the hall, while a priest was sent for to perform the marriage ceremony. Who acts: horses, Tephany. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 13

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At the end of an hour they arrived at a splendid castle, and Tephany, who would not move, was lifted out and carried into the hall, while a priest was sent for to perform the marriage ceremony.

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**Who acts:** horses, Tephany · **What happens:** arrive, not move, lift out, carry, send, perform · **To what, where:** end, Tephany, hall, priest, marriage ceremony

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, Tephany), 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:pg3454:33:13
# text = At the end of an hour they arrived at a splendid castle, and Tephany, who would not move, was lifted out and carried into the hall, while a priest was sent for to perform the marriage ceremony.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | horses *= horse* |  |  |  | at the end of a hour | at a splendid castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **move** | would | Tephany |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lift out** | past · passive |  | Tephany |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | past |  |  |  | the hall |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **send** | past · passive |  | a priest |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **perform** | to-infinitive |  | the marriage ceremony |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=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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