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title: They ran through all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They ran through all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so fine and rich that they seemed to surpass one another. Who acts: neighbors, wardrobes. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Blue Beard, sentence 17

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They ran through all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so fine and rich that they seemed to surpass one another.

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**Who acts:** neighbors, wardrobes · **What happens:** run, be, seem, surpass · **To what, where:** rooms, one

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Blue Beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbors, wardrobes), 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:pg503:40:17
# text = They ran through all the rooms, closets, and wardrobes, which were all so fine and rich that they seemed to surpass one another.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	closets	closet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	wardrobes	wardrobe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	surpass	surpass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | neighbors *= neighbor* |  |  | all rooms and closets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | wardrobes |  |  |  |  | all, fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | wardrobes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | neighbors *= neighbor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **surpass** | to-infinitive | neighbors *= neighbor* *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=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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