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title: After wandering through many marble halls, he came to a huge stairca… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After wandering through many marble halls, he came to a huge staircase made of porphyry, leading down to a lovely garden. Who acts: Iwanich. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 12

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After wandering through many marble halls, he came to a huge staircase made of porphyry, leading down to a lovely garden.

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**Who acts:** Iwanich · **What happens:** wonder, come, make, lead down · **To what, where:** many marble halls, huge staircase

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich), 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:pg640:31:12
# text = After wandering through many marble halls, he came to a huge staircase made of porphyry, leading down to a lovely garden.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	porphyry	porphyry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Iwanich *not said here* |  |  | many marble halls |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | Iwanich |  |  | a huge staircase |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to staircase=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a huge staircase *not said here* |  |  |  | of porphyry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **lead down** | gerund | Iwanich *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a lovely garden; down *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to garden=Patient |

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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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