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title: ‘Show me this house,’ it said, ‘from beginning to end, from top to b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Show me this house,’ it said, ‘from beginning to end, from top to bottom, from inside to out.’ Who acts: house. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 157

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‘Show me this house,’ it said, ‘from beginning to end, from top to bottom, from inside to out.’

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**Who acts:** house · **What happens:** show, say, begin · **To what, where:** house, me, top · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:15:157
# text = ‘Show me this house,’ it said, ‘from beginning to end, from top to bottom, from inside to out.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | infinitive |  | this house | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | house |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | gerund |  |  |  | top to bottom | to end | inside *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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