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title: ‘She is never to be seen at all!’ they told him; ‘she lives in a gre… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘She is never to be seen at all!’ they told him; ‘she lives in a great copper castle, surrounded by many walls and towers! Who acts: Princess, Witch. 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 75

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‘She is never to be seen at all!’ they told him; ‘she lives in a great copper castle, surrounded by many walls and towers!

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**Who acts:** Princess, Witch · **What happens:** not be, tell, live, surround · **To what, where:** Witch, all, soldier, great copper castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Princess, Witch), 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:pg640:46:75
# text = ‘She is never to be seen at all!’ they told him; ‘she lives in a great copper castle, surrounded by many walls and towers!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *not said to happen* | present · passive |  | Witch |  | all |  | see *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Princess |  | soldier |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **live** | present | Witch |  |  | a great copper castle |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
| 4 | **surround** | participle |  | a great copper castle *not said here* |  |  |  | by many walls and towers | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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