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title: In the first place you must build me a palace to-night, the roof of… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the first place you must build me a palace to-night, the roof of purest gold, the walls of marble, and the windows of crystal; all round you must lay out a beautiful garden, with fish-ponds and artistic waterfalls. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit,
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 84

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In the first place you must build me a palace to-night, the roof of purest gold, the walls of marble, and the windows of crystal; all round you must lay out a beautiful garden, with fish-ponds and artistic waterfalls.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** build, lay out · **To what, where:** palace, me, first place, beautiful garden

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg7277:27:84
# text = In the first place you must build me a palace to-night, the roof of purest gold, the walls of marble, and the windows of crystal; all round you must lay out a beautiful garden, with fish-ponds and artistic waterfalls.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	round	round	ADP	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
37	out	out	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | must | you | a palace | me | the first place | night | the windows of crystal *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product |
| 2 | **lay out** | must | you | a beautiful garden |  |  |  | with fish ponds and artistic waterfalls; all *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Result |

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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 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.

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