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title: These houses belonged to three sisters, all endowed with fairy gifts… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These houses belonged to three sisters, all endowed with fairy gifts, and all so alike in mind and person that they wished their houses and garments to be equally alike. Who acts: houses, three sisters, mind. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 11

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These houses belonged to three sisters, all endowed with fairy gifts, and all so alike in mind and person that they wished their houses and garments to be equally alike.

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**Who acts:** houses, three sisters, mind · **What happens:** belong, endow, wish, be · **To what, where:** all, houses

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (houses, three sisters, mind), 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:pg640:24:11
# text = These houses belonged to three sisters, all endowed with fairy gifts, and all so alike in mind and person that they wished their houses and garments to be equally alike.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | this houses |  |  |  |  | to three sisters | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **endow** | participle · passive | three sisters *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with fairy gifts | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gift=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | past | mind | mind's houses and garments |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alike, equally *property* | tree rules |

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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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