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title: One evening, after she had lit a candle and was holding the child, s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening, after she had lit a candle and was holding the child, several planks sprang up in the floor of the room, and out at the opening came a beautiful woman dressed in white, with an iron belt round her waist, to which was fastened an iron chain that went down into the ground. Who acts: Queen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 44

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One evening, after she had lit a candle and was holding the child, several planks sprang up in the floor of the room, and out at the opening came a beautiful woman dressed in white, with an iron belt round her waist, to which was fastened an iron chain that went down into the ground.

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**Who acts:** Queen, several planks, beautiful woman, iron chain · **What happens:** lit, hold, spring up, come, dress, fasten · **To what, where:** candle, child, floor, opening, beautiful woman, white

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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 (Queen, several planks, beautiful woman, iron chain), 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:pg640:47:44
# text = One evening, after she had lit a candle and was holding the child, several planks sprang up in the floor of the room, and out at the opening came a beautiful woman dressed in white, with an iron belt round her waist, to which was fastened an iron chain that went down into the ground.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	planks	plank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
36	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
44	round	round	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	parataxis	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	_
57	down	down	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	into	into	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lit** | past · perfect | Queen | a candle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past · progressive | Queen *not said here* | the child |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **spring up** | past | several planks |  |  | the floor of the room | evening |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in floor=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | a beautiful woman |  |  | the opening |  | with a iron belt round Queen's waist; out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at opening=Location |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | a beautiful woman *not said here* |  | white |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | a iron chain |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: chain=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **go down** | past | a iron chain |  |  | the ground |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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