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title: Everywhere in the halls and corridors cloth was laid down so that no… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everywhere in the halls and corridors cloth was laid down so that no footstep could be heard, and everything was still--very, very still. Who acts: everything. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 149

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Everywhere in the halls and corridors cloth was laid down so that no footstep could be heard, and everything was still--very, very still.

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**Who acts:** everything · **What happens:** lay down, hear, be · **To what, where:** cloth, footstep

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything), 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:pg640:48:149
# text = Everywhere in the halls and corridors cloth was laid down so that no footstep could be heard, and everything was still--very, very still.
1	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	footstep	footstep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | past · passive |  | cloth |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **hear** | could · passive |  | no footstep |  |  | still |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |

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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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