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title: At the word of the Fairy the rocks and stones rose and built themsel… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the word of the Fairy the rocks and stones rose and built themselves into a beautiful castle, and before sunset it was all furnished inside, and left nothing to be desired. Who acts: rocks. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 5

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At the word of the Fairy the rocks and stones rose and built themselves into a beautiful castle, and before sunset it was all furnished inside, and left nothing to be desired.

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**Who acts:** rocks · **What happens:** rise, build, furnish, leave, desire, word · **To what, where:** word, rocks, beautiful castle, Fairy, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks), 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:pg7277:29:5
# text = At the word of the Fairy the rocks and stones rose and built themselves into a beautiful castle, and before sunset it was all furnished inside, and left nothing to be desired.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
27	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the rocks and stones |  |  | the word of the Fairy |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location |
| 2 | **build** | past | the rocks and stones *not said here* | rocks *= rock* |  | a beautiful castle |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent themselves=Material into castle=Product |
| 3 | **furnish** | past · passive |  | Fairy |  |  | sunset | all, inside *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **leave** | past | the rocks and stones *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** | to-infinitive · passive | the rocks and stones *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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