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title: This was the dwelling of the Goddess of Thunder, and when he drew re… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the dwelling of the Goddess of Thunder, and when he drew rein at her door the goddess herself came out to meet him. Who acts: This, Thunder, Jupiter. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 152

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This was the dwelling of the Goddess of Thunder, and when he drew rein at her door the goddess herself came out to meet him.

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**Who acts:** This, Thunder, Jupiter · **What happens:** be, draw, come out, meet · **To what, where:** dwelling, rein, door, goddess, Thunder

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Thunder, Jupiter), 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:pg641:20:152
# text = This was the dwelling of the Goddess of Thunder, and when he drew rein at her door the goddess herself came out to meet him.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	csubj	_	_
15	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the dwelling |  |  |  | of the Goddess of Thunder | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | Thunder | rein |  | Jupiter's door |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
| 3 | **come out** | past | Jupiter | the goddess *not said here* |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient goddess=Result |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Jupiter *not said here* | Thunder |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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