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title: Inside the palace were walking barons, counts, and dukes, acting as… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside the palace were walking barons, counts, and dukes, acting as servants; they opened the door, which was of beaten gold. Who acts: palace, barons, door. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 131

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Inside the palace were walking barons, counts, and dukes, acting as servants; they opened the door, which was of beaten gold.

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**Who acts:** palace, barons, door · **What happens:** walk, count, act, open, beat, be · **To what, where:** barons, dukes, palace, door

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, barons, door), 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:pg7277:54:131
# text = Inside the palace were walking barons, counts, and dukes, acting as servants; they opened the door, which was of beaten gold.
1	Inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	barons	baron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dukes	duke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | the palace *not said here* | barons |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme baron=Trajectory |
| 2 | **count** | present |  | dukes |  | the palace |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **act** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as servants | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as servant=Attribute |
| 4 | **open** | past | barons *= baron* | the door and beaten gold |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 5 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the door and beaten gold |  |  |  |  | of beaten gold | tree rules |

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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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