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title: In the centre of the garden was the dwelling-house, shining with gla… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the centre of the garden was the dwelling-house, shining with glass and precious stones, and in the doorway sat a woman in rich garments, who turned to Elsa’s companion and asked: Who acts: centre, dwelling house, rich garments. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 34

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In the centre of the garden was the dwelling-house, shining with glass and precious stones, and in the doorway sat a woman in rich garments, who turned to Elsa’s companion and asked:

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**Who acts:** centre, dwelling house, rich garments · **What happens:** be, shine, sit, turn, ask · **To what, where:** dwelling house, woman, doorway, companion

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (centre, dwelling house, rich garments), 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:pg641:2:34
# text = In the centre of the garden was the dwelling-house, shining with glass and precious stones, and in the doorway sat a woman in rich garments, who turned to Elsa’s companion and asked:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the centre of the garden | the dwelling house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | the dwelling house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with glass and precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with glass=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the centre of the garden *not said here* | a woman |  | the doorway |  | in rich garments | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in doorway=Location |
| 4 | **turn** | past | rich garments |  |  | Elsa's companion |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to companion=Trajectory |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | rich garments *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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