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title: It had no windows, so it was lighted with wax candles, and the only… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It had no windows, so it was lighted with wax candles, and the only way into it was by an underground passage, which had iron doors only twenty feet apart, and guards were posted everywhere. Who acts: tower, only way, underground passage. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 30

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It had no windows, so it was lighted with wax candles, and the only way into it was by an underground passage, which had iron doors only twenty feet apart, and guards were posted everywhere.

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**Who acts:** tower, only way, underground passage · **What happens:** have, light, be, post · **To what, where:** windows, tower, iron doors, guards

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tower, only way, underground passage), 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:pg540:3:30
# text = It had no windows, so it was lighted with wax candles, and the only way into it was by an underground passage, which had iron doors only twenty feet apart, and guards were posted everywhere.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	posted	post	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
39	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | tower | no windows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 2 | **light** | past · passive |  | tower |  |  |  | with wax candles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with candle=Material |
| 3 | **is** | past | the only way into tower |  |  |  |  | by a underground passage | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | a underground passage | iron doors |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **post** | past · passive |  | guards |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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