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title: In one hand she held a sceptre, and in the other the imperial globe,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In one hand she held a sceptre, and in the other the imperial globe, and on either side of her stood two rows of halberdiers, each smaller than the other, from a seven-foot giant to the tiniest little dwarf no higher than my little finger. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 134

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In one hand she held a sceptre, and in the other the imperial globe, and on either side of her stood two rows of halberdiers, each smaller than the other, from a seven-foot giant to the tiniest little dwarf no higher than my little finger.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** hold, stand · **To what, where:** sceptre, one hand, two rows, side

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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 (wife), 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:pg7277:54:134
# text = In one hand she held a sceptre, and in the other the imperial globe, and on either side of her stood two rows of halberdiers, each smaller than the other, from a seven-foot giant to the tiniest little dwarf no higher than my little finger.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	halberdiers	halberdier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	advcl	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	no	no	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	parataxis	_	_
48	than	than	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | wife | a sceptre |  | one hand |  | in the other imperial globe | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sceptre=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | wife *not said here* | two rows of halberdiers |  | either side of wife |  | from a foot giant | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent row=Theme on side=Destination |

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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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