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title: At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it was so full of pots and pans, but the tables were of mahogany and the sofas and chairs covered with the richest stuffs. Who acts: Jem, room, kitchen, tables. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 56

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At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it was so full of pots and pans, but the tables were of mahogany and the sofas and chairs covered with the richest stuffs.

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**Who acts:** Jem, room, kitchen, tables · **What happens:** pause, look, be, cover · **To what, where:** last, sofas

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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: who acts (Jem, room, kitchen, tables), 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:pg641:26:56
# text = At last she paused in a room which looked almost like a kitchen, it was so full of pots and pans, but the tables were of mahogany and the sofas and chairs covered with the richest stuffs.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sofas	sofa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
39	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | Jem |  |  | last |  | in a room | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | a room |  |  |  |  | like a kitchen | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | kitchen |  |  |  |  | of pots and pans; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the tables |  |  |  |  | of mahogany and the sofas and chairs | tree rules |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  | the sofas and chairs *not said here* |  |  |  | with the richest stuffs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stuff=Theme |

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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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