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title: Vines hung about the high pillars; there were many swallows’ nests,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Vines hung about the high pillars; there were many swallows’ nests, and in one of these lived the swallow who was carrying Thumbelina. Who acts: Vines, nests, one, swallow. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 230

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Vines hung about the high pillars; there were many swallows’ nests, and in one of these lived the swallow who was carrying Thumbelina.

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**Who acts:** Vines, nests, one, swallow · **What happens:** hang, be, live, carry · **To what, where:** swallow, Thumbelina

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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: who acts (Vines, nests, one, swallow), 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:pg640:47:230
# text = Vines hung about the high pillars; there were many swallows’ nests, and in one of these lived the swallow who was carrying Thumbelina.
1	Vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | Vines |  |  |  |  | about the high pillars | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about pillar=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | many swallows's nests |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | one of these | the swallow |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme swallow=Location |
| 4 | **carry** | past · progressive | the swallow | Thumbelina |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumbelina=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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