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description: They entered a large hall, where four and twenty richly dressed women were sitting round a table, looking as if they were about to attend a wedding. Who acts: scales, four dressed women. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 71

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They entered a large hall, where four and twenty richly dressed women were sitting round a table, looking as if they were about to attend a wedding.

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**Who acts:** scales, four dressed women · **What happens:** enter, dress, sit, look, be, attend · **To what, where:** large hall, wedding

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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 (scales, four dressed women), 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:pg641:2:71
# text = They entered a large hall, where four and twenty richly dressed women were sitting round a table, looking as if they were about to attend a wedding.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
11	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | scales *= scale* | a large hall |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive | four dressed women |  |  |  |  | round a table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | four dressed women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | scales *= scale* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **attend** | to-infinitive | scales *= scale* *not said here* | a wedding |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wedding=Goal |

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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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