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title: In the middle of the meadow stood a huge stone castle, with an iron… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the meadow stood a huge stone castle, with an iron gate leading to it, which was wide open. Who acts: iron gate. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 58

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In the middle of the meadow stood a huge stone castle, with an iron gate leading to it, which was wide open.

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**Who acts:** iron gate · **What happens:** stand, lead, be · **To what, where:** huge stone castle, middle, meadow

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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 (iron gate), 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:pg640:24:58
# text = In the middle of the meadow stood a huge stone castle, with an iron gate leading to it, which was wide open.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
17	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a huge stone castle |  | the middle of the meadow |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | a iron gate *not said here* |  | meadow |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | a iron gate |  |  |  |  | open *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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