--- title: So that night, as she went to her room, she was seized by four maske… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So that night, as she went to her room, she was seized by four masked figures, and carried up into the topmost room of a high tower, where they left her in the deepest dejection. Who acts: visit, four, figures. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visit, four, figures), 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:pg7277:2:41 # text = So that night, as she went to her room, she was seized by four masked figures, and carried up into the topmost room of a high tower, where they left her in the deepest dejection. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 seized seize VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nsubj _ _ 17 masked mask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 topmost topmost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 dejection dejection NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | visit | | | visit's room | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **seize** | past · passive | | visit | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mask** | past | four | figures | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme figure=Destination | | 4 | **carry up** | past | visit *not said here* | | | the topmost room of a high tower | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** | past | figures *= figure* | visit | | the deepest dejection | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in dejection=Location | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/42/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/)