--- title: All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life. Who acts: father, this, children, idea. A sentence of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/) / 7 # The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 7 All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life. **Who acts:** father, this, children, idea · **What happens:** leave, be, desolate, live, force, retreat · **To what, where:** little house, desolate place, town, this, despair, different life 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 (father, this, children, idea), 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:pg503:14:7 # text = All that he had left was a little house in a desolate place at least a hundred leagues from the town in which he had lived, and to this he was forced to retreat with his children, who were in despair at the idea of leading such a different life. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 2 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 desolate desolate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 compound _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 nmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 leagues league NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 forced force VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 retreat retreat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 acl:relcl _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 of of SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 48 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 acl _ _ 49 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 52 det:predet _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | father | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | | all little house | | a desolate place hundred leagues from the town | | | tree rules | | 3 | **desolate** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | past · perfect | father | | | the town | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 5 | **force** | past · passive | | this | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **retreat** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | with father's children | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **is** | past | father's children | | | despair | | at the idea | tree rules | | 8 | **lead** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | such different life | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/8/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/14/)