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title: Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round we… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people. Who acts: all. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 133

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Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people.

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**Who acts:** all · **What happens:** erect, stand · **To what, where:** great scaffold, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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:pg640:46:133
# text = Outside the town a great scaffold had been erected, and all round were standing the soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of people.
1	Outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
13	round	round	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **erect** | past · perfect · passive |  | a great scaffold |  |  |  | outside the town; hundreds of thousands of people *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | all | the soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus |

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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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