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title: There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately build… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately buildings which surround it; let us go into it, if you please.” Who acts: nothing, stately buildings, us. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots, sentence 63

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There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately buildings which surround it; let us go into it, if you please.”

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**Who acts:** nothing, stately buildings, us · **What happens:** be, surround, let, go · **To what, where:** castle, us

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, stately buildings, us), 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:pg503:21:63
# text = There can be nothing finer than this court and all the stately buildings which surround it; let us go into it, if you please.”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
5	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	surround	surround	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | present | all stately buildings | castle |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial\_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 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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