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title: There lay three houses in a row, in one of which there lived a tailo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay three houses in a row, in one of which there lived a tailor, in another a carpenter, and in the third a smith. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 29

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There lay three houses in a row, in one of which there lived a tailor, in another a carpenter, and in the third a smith.

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**What happens:** lie, live · **To what, where:** three houses, row, tailor

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:32:29
# text = There lay three houses in a row, in one of which there lived a tailor, in another a carpenter, and in the third a smith.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | three houses |  | a row; there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a tailor |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=Location |

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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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