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title: As she spoke they reached the Castle of Steel, the side next the sea… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she spoke they reached the Castle of Steel, the side next the sea being the only one which the Yellow Dwarf had left unprotected by the dreadful burning walls. Who acts: Mermaid, people, Castle, Yellow Dwarf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its d
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 49

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As she spoke they reached the Castle of Steel, the side next the sea being the only one which the Yellow Dwarf had left unprotected by the dreadful burning walls.

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**Who acts:** Mermaid, people, Castle, Yellow Dwarf, only one · **What happens:** speak, reach, be, leave, unprotect · **To what, where:** only one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mermaid, people, Castle, Yellow Dwarf), 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:pg503:7:49
# text = As she spoke they reached the Castle of Steel, the side next the sea being the only one which the Yellow Dwarf had left unprotected by the dreadful burning walls.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Steel	Steel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	next	next	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	unprotected	unprotect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Mermaid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | the Castle of Steel | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | past · perfect | the Yellow Dwarf | the only one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **unprotect** | participle | the only one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the dreadful burning walls | tree rules |

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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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