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title: Stepping up to one of them, he saw within it what looked like a mode… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stepping up to one of them, he saw within it what looked like a model in miniature of a fine castle surrounded by farms, barns, stables, and a number of other buildings. Who acts: floor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 36

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Stepping up to one of them, he saw within it what looked like a model in miniature of a fine castle surrounded by farms, barns, stables, and a number of other buildings.

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**Who acts:** floor · **What happens:** step up, see, look, surround · **To what, where:** one, fine castle

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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 (floor), 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:pg7277:45:36
# text = Stepping up to one of them, he saw within it what looked like a model in miniature of a fine castle surrounded by farms, barns, stables, and a number of other buildings.
1	Stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	within	within	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	miniature	miniature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **step up** | gerund | floor *not said here* |  | one of boxes |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to one=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | floor |  |  |  |  | within curiosity | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a model; in miniature of a fine castle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in miniature=Theme |
| 4 | **surround** | participle |  | a fine castle *not said here* |  |  |  | by farms and barns and stables | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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