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title: He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace. Who acts: husband, second sister. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 62

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He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace.

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**Who acts:** husband, second sister · **What happens:** stay, not live

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, second sister), 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:pg540:13:62
# text = He is staying just now with my second sister, who lives not far from here in a silver palace.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present · progressive | husband |  |  |  | now | with my second sister | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sister=Location |
| 2 | **not** **live** | present | my second sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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