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title: The architecture was imposing, and in the interior the rooms were ha… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The architecture was imposing, and in the interior the rooms were handsome and furnished in the best possible taste. Who acts: architecture, rooms. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 15

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The architecture was imposing, and in the interior the rooms were handsome and furnished in the best possible taste.

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**Who acts:** architecture, rooms · **What happens:** be, furnish · **To what, where:** interior, best possible taste

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (architecture, 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:pg640:20:15
# text = The architecture was imposing, and in the interior the rooms were handsome and furnished in the best possible taste.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	imposing	imposing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the architecture |  |  |  |  | imposing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the rooms |  |  | the interior |  | handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **furnish** | participle | the rooms *not said here* |  |  | the best possible taste |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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