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title: The fingers went the other way across my eyes, and there we were bef… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fingers went the other way across my eyes, and there we were before a castle door, and in we went through a big hall and great rooms all painted in fine green colours, with red and gold bands and ornaments, and the finest carpets and chairs and tables and window curtains, and grand ladies and ge
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 98

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The fingers went the other way across my eyes, and there we were before a castle door, and in we went through a big hall and great rooms all painted in fine green colours, with red and gold bands and ornaments, and the finest carpets and chairs and tables and window curtains, and grand ladies and gentlemen walking about.

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**Who acts:** fingers, we, grand ladies · **What happens:** go, be, paint, walk · **To what, where:** other way, eyes, big hall, great rooms, fine green colours

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fingers, we, grand ladies), 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:pg3454:6:98
# text = The fingers went the other way across my eyes, and there we were before a castle door, and in we went through a big hall and great rooms all painted in fine green colours, with red and gold bands and ornaments, and the finest carpets and chairs and tables and window curtains, and grand ladies and gentlemen walking about.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	49	amod	_	_
49	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nsubj	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	_
63	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
64	about	about	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	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 | the fingers | the other way |  | my eyes |  | the finest carpets and chairs and tables and window curtains *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  | before a castle door |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | we |  |  | a big hall and great rooms |  | with red gold bands and ornaments | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through hall=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **paint** | participle |  | great rooms *not said here* |  | fine green colours |  | all *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in colour=Destination |
| 5 | **walk** | gerund | grand ladies and gentlemen |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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