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title: She also took him down into a low room, and there stood two stone pi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She also took him down into a low room, and there stood two stone pillars that he had only to touch wi’ his wand, when his two friends and neighbors started into life. Who acts: lady, man, two friends. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 63

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She also took him down into a low room, and there stood two stone pillars that he had only to touch wi’ his wand, when his two friends and neighbors started into life.

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**Who acts:** lady, man, two friends · **What happens:** take down, stand, have, touch, start · **To what, where:** man, low room, two stone pillars, wi, life

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, man, two friends), 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:pg503:56:63
# text = She also took him down into a low room, and there stood two stone pillars that he had only to touch wi’ his wand, when his two friends and neighbors started into life.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	wi	wi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | past | lady | man |  | a low room |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | lady *not said here* | two stone pillars |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pillar=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **touch** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | wi |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus wi=Experiencer wand=Result |
| 5 | **start** | past | man's two friends and neighbors |  |  | life |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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