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title: Deep silence reigned everywhere, and at last, tired of roaming throu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep silence reigned everywhere, and at last, tired of roaming through empty rooms and galleries, he stopped in a room smaller than the rest, where a clear fire was burning and a couch was drawn up closely to it. Who acts: silence, clear fire. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 36

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Deep silence reigned everywhere, and at last, tired of roaming through empty rooms and galleries, he stopped in a room smaller than the rest, where a clear fire was burning and a couch was drawn up closely to it.

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**Who acts:** silence, clear fire · **What happens:** reign, roam, stop, burn, draw up · **To what, where:** Deep silence, empty rooms, room, couch, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, clear fire), 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:pg503:14:36
# text = Deep silence reigned everywhere, and at last, tired of roaming through empty rooms and galleries, he stopped in a room smaller than the rest, where a clear fire was burning and a couch was drawn up closely to it.
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	galleries	gallery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | participle |  | Deep silence *not said here* |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roam** | gerund |  |  |  | empty rooms and galleries |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **stop** | past | silence |  |  | a room |  | small *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 4 | **burn** | past · progressive | a clear fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **draw up** | past · passive |  | a couch |  | fire |  | closely *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to it=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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