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title: In this horrible enclosure stood a small black house, which had only… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this horrible enclosure stood a small black house, which had only two grated windows, all covered with cobwebs, and a battered iron door. Who acts: small black house, two grated windows. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 43

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In this horrible enclosure stood a small black house, which had only two grated windows, all covered with cobwebs, and a battered iron door.

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**Who acts:** small black house, two grated windows · **What happens:** stand, have, grate, cover, batter · **To what, where:** small black house, horrible enclosure, two grated windows, all

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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 (small black house, two grated windows), 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:pg640:31:43
# text = In this horrible enclosure stood a small black house, which had only two grated windows, all covered with cobwebs, and a battered iron door.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	grated	grate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a small black house |  | this horrible enclosure |  | a battered iron door *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in enclosure=Destination |
| 2 | **have** | past | a small black house | two grated windows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient |
| 3 | **grate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cover** | participle · passive | two grated windows *not said here* | all |  |  |  | with cobwebs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cobweb=Theme |
| 5 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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