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description: It happened once when a great feast was being held in the palace, that she said to the cook, ‘Can I go upstairs for a little bit and look on? Who acts: It, daughter, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 34

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It happened once when a great feast was being held in the palace, that she said to the cook, ‘Can I go upstairs for a little bit and look on?

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**Who acts:** It, daughter, I · **What happens:** happen, hold, say, go, look on · **To what, where:** great feast, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, daughter, I), 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:pg7277:42:34
# text = It happened once when a great feast was being held in the palace, that she said to the cook, ‘Can I go upstairs for a little bit and look on?
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
26	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive |  | a great feast |  | the palace |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in palace=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | to the cook | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to cook=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | can | I |  |  |  |  | for a little bit; upstairs *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bit=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **look on** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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