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title: There he saw a deer’s foot hanging by a chain of diamonds, and he be… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There he saw a deer’s foot hanging by a chain of diamonds, and he began to wonder who could live in this magnificent castle. Who acts: two, foot. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 20

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There he saw a deer’s foot hanging by a chain of diamonds, and he began to wonder who could live in this magnificent castle.

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**Who acts:** two, foot · **What happens:** see, hang, begin, wonder, live · **To what, where:** foot, magnificent castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (two, foot), 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:pg503:23:20
# text = There he saw a deer’s foot hanging by a chain of diamonds, and he began to wonder who could live in this magnificent castle.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | two | a deer's foot |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | a deer's foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a chain of diamonds | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chain=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | two |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** | could |  |  |  | this magnificent castle |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=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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