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title: There lay a great white marble column which had fallen to the ground… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay a great white marble column which had fallen to the ground and broken into three pieces, but between these grew the most beautiful white flowers. Who acts: great white marble column, these. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its depe
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 235

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There lay a great white marble column which had fallen to the ground and broken into three pieces, but between these grew the most beautiful white flowers.

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**Who acts:** great white marble column, these · **What happens:** lie, fall, break, grow · **To what, where:** great white marble column, three pieces, beautiful white flowers

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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 (great white marble column, these), 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:pg640:47:235
# text = There lay a great white marble column which had fallen to the ground and broken into three pieces, but between these grew the most beautiful white flowers.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	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 | **lie** | past |  | a great white marble column |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location column=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | a great white marble column |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle | a great white marble column *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into three pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into piece=Result |
| 4 | **grow** | past | these | the beautiful white flowers |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=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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