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title: These good people had a little window at the back of their house, wh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 98

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These good people had a little window at the back of their house, which looked into the most lovely garden, full of all manner of beautiful flowers and vegetables; but the garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to enter it, for it belonged to a witch of great power, who was feared by the whole world.

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**Who acts:** good people, house, high wall, one, window, whole world · **What happens:** have, look, surround, dare, enter, belong · **To what, where:** little window, back, garden, window, great power

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good people, house, high wall, one), 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:pg540:41:98
# text = These good people had a little window at the back of their house, which looked into the most lovely garden, full of all manner of beautiful flowers and vegetables; but the garden was surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to enter it, for it belonged to a witch of great power, who was feared by the whole world.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	45	det	_	_
45	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	acl:relcl	_	_
64	by	by	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this good people | a little window |  | the back of people's house |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | past | people's house |  |  |  |  | into the lovely garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into garden=Theme |
| 3 | **surround** | past · passive | a high wall | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **dare** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **enter** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | window |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |
| 6 | **belong** | past | window |  |  |  |  | to a witch of great power | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fear** | past · passive | the whole world | great power |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |

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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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