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title: So there was no one left belonging to the house but the landlord’s d… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So there was no one left belonging to the house but the landlord’s daughter, who was a good, well-meaning girl, and had taken no part in all the evil doings. Who acts: one, house. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 27

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So there was no one left belonging to the house but the landlord’s daughter, who was a good, well-meaning girl, and had taken no part in all the evil doings.

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**Who acts:** one, house · **What happens:** be, leave, belong, mean, take · **To what, where:** girl, part, evil doings

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, house), 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:pg7277:47:27
# text = So there was no one left belonging to the house but the landlord’s daughter, who was a good, well-meaning girl, and had taken no part in all the evil doings.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **be** | past | no one *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the house but the landlord's daughter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the house but the landlord's daughter |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mean** | gerund | the house but the landlord's daughter *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | well *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 6 | **take** | past · perfect | no one *not said here* | no part |  | all evil doings |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in doing=Location |

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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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