--- title: Everything in the castle seemed to be made of copper, and the only i… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Everything in the castle seemed to be made of copper, and the only inhabitant he could discover was a lovely girl, who was combing her golden hair; and he noticed that whenever one of her hairs fell on the ground it rang out like pure metal. Who acts: Everything, abyss, only inhabitant, lovely girl. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/) / 59 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 59 Everything in the castle seemed to be made of copper, and the only inhabitant he could discover was a lovely girl, who was combing her golden hair; and he noticed that whenever one of her hairs fell on the ground it rang out like pure metal. **Who acts:** Everything, abyss, only inhabitant, lovely girl, one, inhabitant · **What happens:** seem, make, discover, be, comb, notice · **To what, where:** only inhabitant, lovely girl, golden hair, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Everything, abyss, only inhabitant, lovely girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:24:59 # text = Everything in the castle seemed to be made of copper, and the only inhabitant he could discover was a lovely girl, who was combing her golden hair; and he noticed that whenever one of her hairs fell on the ground it rang out like pure metal. 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 5 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 xcomp _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 inhabitant inhabitant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 combing comb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 35 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 40 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 46 out out ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 like like ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | Everything | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | Everything *not said here* | | | | | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 3 | **discover** | could | abyss | the only inhabitant *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | past | the only inhabitant | a lovely girl | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **comb** | past · progressive | a lovely girl | girl's golden hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 6 | **notice** | past | abyss | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **fall** | past | one of girl's hairs | | | the ground | | whenever *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | | 8 | **ring out** | past | inhabitant | | | | | like pure metal | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/60/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)