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title: He still lingered, but some mysterious power seemed to impel him, an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He still lingered, but some mysterious power seemed to impel him, and passing through the door he found himself in a spacious hall, whose ceiling, walls, and floor were covered with polished tiles carved all over with unknown figures. Who acts: tailor, mysterious power. A sentence of «The Green Fair
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 30

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He still lingered, but some mysterious power seemed to impel him, and passing through the door he found himself in a spacious hall, whose ceiling, walls, and floor were covered with polished tiles carved all over with unknown figures.

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**Who acts:** tailor, mysterious power · **What happens:** linger, seem, impel, pass, find, cover · **To what, where:** tailor, door, spacious hall, floor, polished tiles

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, mysterious power), 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:pg7277:45:30
# text = He still lingered, but some mysterious power seemed to impel him, and passing through the door he found himself in a spacious hall, whose ceiling, walls, and floor were covered with polished tiles carved all over with unknown figures.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lingered	linger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	impel	impel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	over	over	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **linger** | past | tailor |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | some mysterious power |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **impel** | to-infinitive | some mysterious power *not said here* | tailor |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | tailor *not said here* |  |  | the door |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | tailor | tailor |  | a spacious hall and a spacious hall and a spacious hall's ceiling and walls's ceiling and walls |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 6 | **cover** | past · passive |  | floor |  |  |  | with polished tiles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tile=Theme |
| 7 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **carve** | participle |  | polished tiles *not said here* |  |  |  | with unknown figures; over *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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