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title: We have been in all the rooms of our father’s palace, and have admir… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We have been in all the rooms of our father’s palace, and have admired the rich and beautiful furniture: why should not we go into the room that our father forbad us to enter?’ Who acts: We, rooms, father. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 20

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We have been in all the rooms of our father’s palace, and have admired the rich and beautiful furniture: why should not we go into the room that our father forbad us to enter?’

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**Who acts:** We, rooms, father · **What happens:** be, admire, not go, forba, enter · **To what, where:** rooms, rich furniture, room

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, rooms, father), 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:pg540:12:20
# text = We have been in all the rooms of our father’s palace, and have admired the rich and beautiful furniture: why should not we go into the room that our father forbad us to enter?’
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	forbad	forba	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | We |  |  | all rooms |  | of our father's palace | tree rules |
| 2 | **admire** | present · perfect | all rooms *not said here* | the rich furniture |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **go** | should | we |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **forba** | past | our father | the room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **enter** | to-infinitive | our father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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