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title: In the room there was a bed, with diamond rings hanging at every loo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the room there was a bed, with diamond rings hanging at every loop of the curtains, and everything that was in the room besides astonished him so much that he actually forgot that he was hungry. Who acts: bed, diamond rings, room, Englishman. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 28

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In the room there was a bed, with diamond rings hanging at every loop of the curtains, and everything that was in the room besides astonished him so much that he actually forgot that he was hungry.

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**Who acts:** bed, diamond rings, room, Englishman · **What happens:** be, hang, astonish, forget · **To what, where:** room, everything, loop, Englishman

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, diamond rings, room, Englishman), 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:pg640:45:28
# text = In the room there was a bed, with diamond rings hanging at every loop of the curtains, and everything that was in the room besides astonished him so much that he actually forgot that he was hungry.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	_
27	besides	besides	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	28	advmod	_	_
28	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a bed |  |  | the room; there |  | with diamond rings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | diamond rings *not said here* | everything |  | every loop of the curtains |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at loop=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the room |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **astonish** | past | the room *not said here* | Englishman |  |  |  | besides *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **forget** | past | Englishman |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | Englishman |  |  |  |  | hungry *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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