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title: At last there was no place left for him to search but a little wood,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last there was no place left for him to search but a little wood, which contained in the centre a sort of hall built entirely of orange-trees, with four small rooms opening out of the corners. Who acts: little wood, four small rooms. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grate
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 47

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At last there was no place left for him to search but a little wood, which contained in the centre a sort of hall built entirely of orange-trees, with four small rooms opening out of the corners.

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**Who acts:** little wood, four small rooms · **What happens:** leave, search, contain, build, open out, sort · **To what, where:** place, centre, sort, corners, hall

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little wood, four small rooms), 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:pg640:16:47
# text = At last there was no place left for him to search but a little wood, which contained in the centre a sort of hall built entirely of orange-trees, with four small rooms opening out of the corners.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
37	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	out	out	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  | no place but a little wood *not said here* |  |  |  | for gate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient |
| 2 | **search** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contain** | past | a little wood |  |  | the centre |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | a sort of hall *not said here* |  |  |  | of orange trees with four small rooms; entirely *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **open out** | gerund | four small rooms *not said here* | the corners |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location corner=Theme |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | hall |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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