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title: Now not far from the music master’s house there dwelt a lady who pos… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now not far from the music master’s house there dwelt a lady who possessed a most lovely little pussy cat called Koma. Who acts: lady. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 32

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Now not far from the music master’s house there dwelt a lady who possessed a most lovely little pussy cat called Koma.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** dwell, possess, call · **To what, where:** lady, house, lovely little pussy cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (lady), 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:pg5615:1:32
# text = Now not far from the music master’s house there dwelt a lady who possessed a most lovely little pussy cat called Koma.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	pussy	pussy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	Koma	Koma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past |  | a lady |  | the music master's house; there |  | far *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lady=Location |
| 2 | **possess** | past | a lady | a lovely little pussy cat |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cat=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a lovely little pussy cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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