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title: And so when the poor silly youth entered the room, he discovered tha… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so when the poor silly youth entered the room, he discovered that the iron walls were red hot. Who acts: poor silly youth, King, iron walls. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 121

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And so when the poor silly youth entered the room, he discovered that the iron walls were red hot.

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**Who acts:** poor silly youth, King, iron walls · **What happens:** enter, discover, be · **To what, where:** room

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor silly youth, King, iron walls), 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:pg640:35:121
# text = And so when the poor silly youth entered the room, he discovered that the iron walls were red hot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the poor silly youth | the room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **discover** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the iron walls |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

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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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