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title: In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors. Who acts: horrible witch, living. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 57

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In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors.

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**Who acts:** horrible witch, living · **What happens:** be, allow, enter · **To what, where:** castle, middle, living, doors

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horrible witch, living), 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:pg540:40:57
# text = In the middle of the park is a castle, where dwells a horrible witch who allows no living being to enter the doors.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
12	dwells	dwell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	allows	allow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a castle and dwells |  | the middle of the park |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | present | a horrible witch | no living |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **enter** | to-infinitive | no living *not said here* | the doors |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination |

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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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