--- title: About half a mile from the palace in which they lived there stood a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: About half a mile from the palace in which they lived there stood a castle, which was uninhabited and almost a ruin, but the garden which surrounded it was a mass of blooming flowers, and in this garden the youngest Princess used often to walk. Who acts: Princesses, mile, castle, garden. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princesses, mile, castle, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:17:100 # text = About half a mile from the palace in which they lived there stood a castle, which was uninhabited and almost a ruin, but the garden which surrounded it was a mass of blooming flowers, and in this garden the youngest Princess used often to walk. 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 4 det:predet _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 uninhabited uninhabited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 appos _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ruin ruin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 blooming bloom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 36 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 44 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 45 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 often often ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Princesses *= princess* | | | the palace; there | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 2 | **stand** | past | half mile from the palace | a castle | | this garden | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in garden=Destination | | 3 | **is** | past | a castle | | | | | uninhabited *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **surround** | participle · passive | | the garden | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | the garden | a mass | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bloom** | gerund | a mass *not said here* | flowers | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | | 7 | **use** | participle | | the youngest Princess *not said here* | | | | often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **walk** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/99/) - next →: [The Grateful Beasts(11), par…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/18/1/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)