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title: Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set with precious stones and a sofa spread with the softest cushions. Who acts: Inside. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 43

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Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set with precious stones and a sofa spread with the softest cushions.

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**Who acts:** Inside · **What happens:** be, spread · **To what, where:** great hall, sofa

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inside), 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:pg641:30:43
# text = Inside was a great hall, and in the middle of the hall a throne set with precious stones and a sofa spread with the softest cushions.
1	Inside	Inside	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	softest	soft	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Inside | a great hall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | participle |  | a sofa *not said here* |  |  |  | with the softest cushions | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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