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title: However, at last they led her into the gallery of mirrors that she m… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, at last they led her into the gallery of mirrors that she might assure herself that nothing was lacking in her appearance, and then she mounted her throne of gold, ebony, and ivory, while her ladies took their guitars and began to sing softly. Who acts: maids, mirrors, nothing, Goldilocks. 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 77

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However, at last they led her into the gallery of mirrors that she might assure herself that nothing was lacking in her appearance, and then she mounted her throne of gold, ebony, and ivory, while her ladies took their guitars and began to sing softly.

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**Who acts:** maids, mirrors, nothing, Goldilocks, ladies · **What happens:** lead, assure, lack, mount, take, begin · **To what, where:** Goldilocks, last, appearance, throne, guitars

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maids, mirrors, nothing, Goldilocks), 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:pg503:28:77
# text = However, at last they led her into the gallery of mirrors that she might assure herself that nothing was lacking in her appearance, and then she mounted her throne of gold, ebony, and ivory, while her ladies took their guitars and began to sing softly.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	lacking	lack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	guitars	guitar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | maids *= maid* | Goldilocks |  | last |  | into the gallery of mirrors; however *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme at last=Destination |
| 2 | **assure** | might | mirrors | Goldilocks |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **lack** | past · progressive | nothing |  |  | Goldilocks's appearance |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mount** | past | Goldilocks | Goldilocks's throne of gold and ebony |  |  | then | ivory *obl* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | past | Goldilocks's ladies | maids's guitars |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | Goldilocks's ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Goldilocks's ladies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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