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title: In the middle of the field stood a magnificent castle, built out of… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the field stood a magnificent castle, built out of porphyry, with a roof of gold and with glittering battlements. Who acts: magnificent castle. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 62

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In the middle of the field stood a magnificent castle, built out of porphyry, with a roof of gold and with glittering battlements.

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**Who acts:** magnificent castle · **What happens:** stand, build out · **To what, where:** magnificent castle, middle, porphyry

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magnificent castle), 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:pg640:33:62
# text = In the middle of the field stood a magnificent castle, built out of porphyry, with a roof of gold and with glittering battlements.
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	field	field	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	10	det	_	_
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	porphyry	porphyry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	glittering	glittering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 magnificent castle |  | the middle of the field |  | with a roof of gold and glittering battlements | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **build out** | participle | a magnificent castle *not said here* | porphyry |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset porphyry=Product |

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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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