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title: In the pretty house, which has white window-frames, a neat porch and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the pretty house, which has white window-frames, a neat porch and clean steps, which are always strewn with finely-cut juniper leaves, Walter’s parents live. Who acts: pretty house, white window frames, parents. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, wi
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 108

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In the pretty house, which has white window-frames, a neat porch and clean steps, which are always strewn with finely-cut juniper leaves, Walter’s parents live.

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**Who acts:** pretty house, white window frames, parents · **What happens:** have, be, cut, live · **To what, where:** white window frames, pretty house

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty house, white window frames, parents), 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:pg3454:7:108
# text = In the pretty house, which has white window-frames, a neat porch and clean steps, which are always strewn with finely-cut juniper leaves, Walter’s parents live.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	porch	porch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	finely	finely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	juniper	juniper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
31	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the pretty house | white window frames and a neat porch and clean steps |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frame=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | white window frames and a neat porch and clean steps |  |  |  |  | with cut juniper leaves; always, strewn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **live** | present | Walter's parents |  |  | the pretty house |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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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