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title: Fairer-than-a-Fairy felt a strong desire to enter this Castle, but b… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairer-than-a-Fairy felt a strong desire to enter this Castle, but besides being hung a little above the ground there seemed to be neither doors nor windows. Who acts: Fairer. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 18

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Fairer-than-a-Fairy felt a strong desire to enter this Castle, but besides being hung a little above the ground there seemed to be neither doors nor windows.

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**Who acts:** Fairer · **What happens:** feel, enter, hang, seem, be · **To what, where:** strong desire, Castle, little, ground, doors

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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 (Fairer), 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:pg640:24:18
# text = Fairer-than-a-Fairy felt a strong desire to enter this Castle, but besides being hung a little above the ground there seemed to be neither doors nor windows.
1	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	above	above	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
27	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc:preconj	_	_
31	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	xcomp	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
33	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Fairer | a strong desire |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | to-infinitive | Fairer *not said here* | this Castle |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund · passive |  | a little |  | the ground; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: above ground=Location |
| 4 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | doors nor windows |  |  |  |  | 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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