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title: So the youth went with her, and soon they reached a beautiful garden… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the youth went with her, and soon they reached a beautiful garden, where stood a splendid house, which glittered in the moonlight as if it was all built out of gold and silver. Who acts: youth, birds, splendid house. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2)
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 73

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So the youth went with her, and soon they reached a beautiful garden, where stood a splendid house, which glittered in the moonlight as if it was all built out of gold and silver.

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**Who acts:** youth, birds, splendid house · **What happens:** go, reach, stand, glitter, build out · **To what, where:** beautiful garden, splendid house, moonlight, house, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, birds, splendid house), 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:pg640:5:73
# text = So the youth went with her, and soon they reached a beautiful garden, where stood a splendid house, which glittered in the moonlight as if it was all built out of gold and silver.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | with maiden | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **reach** | past | birds *= bird* | a beautiful garden |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | birds *= bird* *not said here* | a splendid house |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 4 | **glitter** | past | a splendid house |  |  | the moonlight |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location |
| 5 | **build out** | past · passive |  | house |  | gold and silver |  | all *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gold=Product |

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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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