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title: Under the most splendid green trees besides a blue lake stood a glit… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the most splendid green trees besides a blue lake stood a glittering white-marble castle. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 229

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Under the most splendid green trees besides a blue lake stood a glittering white-marble castle.

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**What happens:** stand, glitter · **To what, where:** glittering marble castle, splendid green trees

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:47:229
# text = Under the most splendid green trees besides a blue lake stood a glittering white-marble castle.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a glittering marble castle |  | the splendid green trees |  | besides a blue lake | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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