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title: And lo! where he had stood there remained a broomstick standing upri… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And lo! where he had stood there remained a broomstick standing upright, round which the boys had built him! Who acts: man, broomstick. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 187

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And lo! where he had stood there remained a broomstick standing upright, round which the boys had built him!

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**Who acts:** man, broomstick · **What happens:** stand, remain, build · **To what, where:** broomstick, boys

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, broomstick), 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:pg5615:5:187
# text = And lo! where he had stood there remained a broomstick standing upright, round which the boys had built him!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · perfect | man |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **remain** | past |  | a broomstick |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme broomstick=Attribute |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a broomstick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | the boys |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |

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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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