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title: Then they stepped into the room, and there they saw the jogi’s body… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they stepped into the room, and there they saw the jogi’s body lying torn to pieces on the threshold of his dwelling! Who acts: pupils. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 17

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Then they stepped into the room, and there they saw the jogi’s body lying torn to pieces on the threshold of his dwelling!

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**Who acts:** pupils · **What happens:** step, see, lie, tear · **To what, where:** room, body, pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils), 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:pg3454:5:17
# text = Then they stepped into the room, and there they saw the jogi’s body lying torn to pieces on the threshold of his dwelling!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	ccomp	_	_
17	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | pupils *= pupil* |  |  | the room | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | pupils *= pupil* | the jogi's body |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  | pieces on the threshold of jogi's dwelling |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination |

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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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