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title: A splendid palace reared itself on the hill just outside the walls o… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A splendid palace reared itself on the hill just outside the walls of the city, made of the most exquisite flowers that ever grew in mortal garden. Who acts: splendid palace, exquisite flowers. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 80

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A splendid palace reared itself on the hill just outside the walls of the city, made of the most exquisite flowers that ever grew in mortal garden.

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**Who acts:** splendid palace, exquisite flowers · **What happens:** rear, make, grow · **To what, where:** palace, hill, walls, mortal garden

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (splendid palace, exquisite flowers), 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:pg640:14:80
# text = A splendid palace reared itself on the hill just outside the walls of the city, made of the most exquisite flowers that ever grew in mortal garden.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reared	rear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
25	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rear** | past | a splendid palace | palace |  | the hill |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | the walls of the city *not said here* |  |  |  | of the exquisite flowers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the exquisite flowers |  |  | mortal garden | ever |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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