--- title: The beautiful room was a big, rough cave, with water oozing over the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The beautiful room was a big, rough cave, with water oozing over the edges of the stones and through the clay; and the lady, and the lord, and the child weazened, poverty-bitten creatures--nothing but skin and bone--and the rich dresses were old rags. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful room, water, child, rich dresses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:6:102 # text = The beautiful room was a big, rough cave, with water oozing over the edges of the stones and through the clay; and the lady, and the lord, and the child weazened, poverty-bitten creatures--nothing but skin and bone--and the rich dresses were old rags. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 oozing ooze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 36 weazened weazen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 poverty poverty NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 amod _ _ 41 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 conj _ _ 44 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 dresses dress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nsubj _ _ 53 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 54 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the beautiful room | a big rough cave and water and the lady and the lord and bitten creatures and old rags | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ooze** | gerund | water *not said here* | | | the edges of the stones and the clay | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over edge=Location | | 3 | **weazen** | participle | | the child *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bite** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **creature** | | the child | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | past | the rich dresses | old rags | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/103/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/)