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title: She held a new council, calling in mice from every quarter of the gl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She held a new council, calling in mice from every quarter of the globe, but nobody knew where the bronze ring was. Who acts: queen, nobody, bronze ring. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 185

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She held a new council, calling in mice from every quarter of the globe, but nobody knew where the bronze ring was.

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**Who acts:** queen, nobody, bronze ring · **What happens:** hold, call, know, be · **To what, where:** new council, quarter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, nobody, bronze ring), 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:pg503:2:185
# text = She held a new council, calling in mice from every quarter of the globe, but nobody knew where the bronze ring was.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bronze	bronze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | queen | a new council |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | queen *not said here* |  |  | every quarter of the globe |  | in mice | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from quarter=Source |
| 3 | **know** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the bronze ring |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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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