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title: The lady then removed the lid, and it was marvellous to watch the ca… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady then removed the lid, and it was marvellous to watch the castle, houses, and farmyards begin to grow and spread themselves till they had regained their proper size. Who acts: lady, lid, farmyards. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 80

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The lady then removed the lid, and it was marvellous to watch the castle, houses, and farmyards begin to grow and spread themselves till they had regained their proper size.

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**Who acts:** lady, lid, farmyards · **What happens:** remove, be, watch, begin, grow, spread · **To what, where:** lid, castle, farmyards, proper size

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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 (lady, lid, farmyards), 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:pg7277:45:80
# text = The lady then removed the lid, and it was marvellous to watch the castle, houses, and farmyards begin to grow and spread themselves till they had regained their proper size.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	farmyards	farmyard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	begin	begin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	regained	regain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past | the lady | the lid |  |  | then |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | lid |  |  |  |  | marvellous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | lid *not said here* | the castle and houses |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | present | farmyards |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive | farmyards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **spread** | infinitive | farmyards *not said here* | farmyards *= farmyard* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 7 | **regain** | past · perfect | farmyards *= farmyard* | farmyards's proper size |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=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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