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title: Have you been in the storeroom, where cheeses lie on the shelves, an… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you been in the storeroom, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from the ceiling, where one dances on tallow candles, and where one goes in thin and comes out fat?’ Who acts: you, cheeses, hams, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, wi
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 129

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Have you been in the storeroom, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from the ceiling, where one dances on tallow candles, and where one goes in thin and comes out fat?’

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**Who acts:** you, cheeses, hams, one · **What happens:** have, be, lie, hang, dance, go · **To what, where:** storeroom, shelves, ceiling, tallow candles, thin, fat

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cheeses, hams, 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:pg5615:11:129
# text = Have you been in the storeroom, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from the ceiling, where one dances on tallow candles, and where one goes in thin and comes out fat?’
1	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	storeroom	storeroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	hams	ham	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj	_	_
32	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | you |  |  | the storeroom |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | cheeses |  |  | the shelves |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location |
| 4 | **hang** | present | hams |  |  | the ceiling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dance** | present | one |  |  | tallow candles |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on candle=Location |
| 6 | **go** | present | one |  |  | thin |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in thin=Location |
| 7 | **come out** | present | one *not said here* | fat |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

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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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