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title: He turned into the finest inn, ordered the best chamber and his favo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He turned into the finest inn, ordered the best chamber and his favourite dinner; for now that he had so much money he was really rich. Who acts: soldier. 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 70

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He turned into the finest inn, ordered the best chamber and his favourite dinner; for now that he had so much money he was really rich.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** turn, order, have, be · **To what, where:** finest inn, best chamber, much money

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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 (soldier), 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:pg640:46:70
# text = He turned into the finest inn, ordered the best chamber and his favourite dinner; for now that he had so much money he was really rich.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	really	really	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | soldier |  |  | the finest inn |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into inn=Trajectory |
| 2 | **order** | past |  | the best chamber and soldier's favourite dinner |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | soldier | much money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | soldier | much money *not said here* |  |  |  | rich *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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