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title: The horse stopped at the foot of the flight of steps leading to the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The horse stopped at the foot of the flight of steps leading to the terrace, and when they had dismounted her father led her to the little room he had been in before, where they found a splendid fire burning, and the table daintily spread with a delicious supper. Who acts: horse, steps, father, sple
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 14

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The horse stopped at the foot of the flight of steps leading to the terrace, and when they had dismounted her father led her to the little room he had been in before, where they found a splendid fire burning, and the table daintily spread with a delicious supper.

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**Who acts:** horse, steps, father, splendid fire · **What happens:** stop, lead, dismount, be, find, burn · **To what, where:** foot, horse, little room, splendid fire

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, steps, father, splendid 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:pg503:15:14
# text = The horse stopped at the foot of the flight of steps leading to the terrace, and when they had dismounted her father led her to the little room he had been in before, where they found a splendid fire burning, and the table daintily spread with a delicious supper.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
47	daintily	daintily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	ccomp	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the horse |  |  | the foot of the flight of steps |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the terrace | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to terrace=Patient |
| 3 | **dismount** | past · perfect | steps *= step* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lead** | past | horse's father | horse |  | the little room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | father |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | past | steps *= step* | a splendid fire |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic |
| 7 | **burn** | gerund | a splendid fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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 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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