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title: At the head of the landing rows of courtiers were collected in magni… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the head of the landing rows of courtiers were collected in magnificent attire, who stared at the queer old figure, and called to her, and explained to her, with every kind of sign, that it was strictly forbidden to mount those steps. Who acts: magnificent attire. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 90

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At the head of the landing rows of courtiers were collected in magnificent attire, who stared at the queer old figure, and called to her, and explained to her, with every kind of sign, that it was strictly forbidden to mount those steps.

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**Who acts:** magnificent attire · **What happens:** collect, stare, call, explain, forbid, mount · **To what, where:** head, obedient, kind, steps · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 attire), 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:pg640:33:90
# text = At the head of the landing rows of courtiers were collected in magnificent attire, who stared at the queer old figure, and called to her, and explained to her, with every kind of sign, that it was strictly forbidden to mount those steps.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	queer	queer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	strictly	strictly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
48	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past · passive |  |  |  | the head of the landing rows of courtiers |  | in magnificent attire | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 2 | **stare** | past | magnificent attire |  |  |  |  | at the old figure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at figure=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  |  | obedient |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | obedient |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **forbid** | past · passive |  | kind |  |  |  | strictly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mount** | to-infinitive |  | that steps |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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