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title: She led him into a large hall filled with stone statues, which once… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She led him into a large hall filled with stone statues, which once had been men, and, pointing out one, she said, ‘There is your brother.’ Who acts: witch, stone statues, brother. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 92

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She led him into a large hall filled with stone statues, which once had been men, and, pointing out one, she said, ‘There is your brother.’

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**Who acts:** witch, stone statues, brother · **What happens:** lead, fill, be, point out, say · **To what, where:** wretch, large hall, men, one · **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 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, stone statues, brother), 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:pg5615:23:92
# text = She led him into a large hall filled with stone statues, which once had been men, and, pointing out one, she said, ‘There is your brother.’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | witch | wretch |  | a large hall |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a large hall *not said here* |  |  |  | with stone statues and men | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with statue=Instrument |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | stone statues and men | men |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **point out** | gerund | witch *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **be** | present | your brother |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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