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title: The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble, the furniture of ebony inlaid with gold and precious stones, the floor of such smooth slippery glass that the little fellow tumbled down more than once. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Lon
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 48

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The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble, the furniture of ebony inlaid with gold and precious stones, the floor of such smooth slippery glass that the little fellow tumbled down more than once.

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**What happens:** furnish, inlay, tumble down · **To what, where:** house, furniture, little fellow

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:26:48
# text = The house was splendidly furnished, the walls and ceiling of marble, the furniture of ebony inlaid with gold and precious stones, the floor of such smooth slippery glass that the little fellow tumbled down more than once.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	inlaid	inlay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	down	down	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | the walls of marble and ceiling *obl*; splendidly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **inlay** | participle |  | the furniture of ebony *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold and precious stones | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
| 3 | **tumble down** | participle |  | the little fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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