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title: Petru went up the stairs and walked quickly through eight-and-forty… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Petru went up the stairs and walked quickly through eight-and-forty rooms, hung with silken stuffs, and all empty. Who acts: Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 1

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Petru went up the stairs and walked quickly through eight-and-forty rooms, hung with silken stuffs, and all empty.

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**Who acts:** Petru · **What happens:** go up, walk, hang · **To what, where:** stairs, forty rooms

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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:pg641:22:1
# text = Petru went up the stairs and walked quickly through eight-and-forty rooms, hung with silken stuffs, and all empty.
1	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Petru | the stairs |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Petru *not said here* |  |  | forty rooms |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hang** | participle |  | forty rooms *not said here* |  |  |  | with silken stuffs | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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