--- title: It was a well just like other wells, and it seemed strange that the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was a well just like other wells, and it seemed strange that the Fairy of the Dawn should have it in her own chamber; yet anyone could tell it had been there for hundreds of years. Who acts: middle, it, Fairy, anyone. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/) / 4 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 4 It was a well just like other wells, and it seemed strange that the Fairy of the Dawn should have it in her own chamber; yet anyone could tell it had been there for hundreds of years. **Who acts:** middle, it, Fairy, anyone · **What happens:** be, seem, have, tell · **To what, where:** other wells, middle, own chamber · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (middle, it, Fairy, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:22:4 # text = It was a well just like other wells, and it seemed strange that the Fairy of the Dawn should have it in her own chamber; yet anyone could tell it had been there for hundreds of years. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wells well NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Dawn Dawn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 cop _ _ 35 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 ccomp _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | middle | | | | | like other wells; well *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | past | it | other wells *not said here* | | | | strange *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme well=Attribute | | 3 | **have** | should | the Fairy of the Dawn | middle | | Fairy's own chamber | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | anyone | | | | | for hundreds of years | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past · perfect | middle | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/5/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/22/)