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title: Here she was received by a beautiful lady dressed in green and white… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here she was received by a beautiful lady dressed in green and white to match the house, which apparently belonged to her, and of which she seemed the only inhabitant. Who acts: beautiful lady, house, Lagree. 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 5

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Here she was received by a beautiful lady dressed in green and white to match the house, which apparently belonged to her, and of which she seemed the only inhabitant.

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**Who acts:** beautiful lady, house, Lagree · **What happens:** receive, dress, match, belong, seem · **To what, where:** Lagree, beautiful lady, green, house, only inhabitant

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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 (beautiful lady, house, Lagree), 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:pg640:24:5
# text = Here she was received by a beautiful lady dressed in green and white to match the house, which apparently belonged to her, and of which she seemed the only inhabitant.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · passive | a beautiful lady | Lagree |  | here |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | a beautiful lady *not said here* |  | green |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **match** | to-infinitive |  | the house |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 4 | **belong** | past | the house |  | Lagree |  |  | apparently *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seem** | past | Lagree | the only inhabitant |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inhabitant=Attribute |

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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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