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title: Round her were numbers of Church dignitaries, and on either side wer… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Round her were numbers of Church dignitaries, and on either side were standing two rows of tapers, the largest of them as tall as a steeple, and the smallest as tiny as a Christmas-tree candle. Who acts: Church dignitaries, smallest. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 166

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Round her were numbers of Church dignitaries, and on either side were standing two rows of tapers, the largest of them as tall as a steeple, and the smallest as tiny as a Christmas-tree candle.

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**Who acts:** Church dignitaries, smallest · **What happens:** be, stand · **To what, where:** 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 (Church dignitaries, smallest), 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:pg7277:54:166
# text = Round her were numbers of Church dignitaries, and on either side were standing two rows of tapers, the largest of them as tall as a steeple, and the smallest as tiny as a Christmas-tree candle.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dignitaries	dignitary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	acl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	steeple	steeple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	nsubj	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | round wife's numbers; of Church dignitaries | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | Church dignitaries *not said here* | two rows of tapers |  | either side |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent row=Theme on side=Destination |
| 3 | **be** |  | the smallest |  |  |  |  | as a Christmas tree candle | 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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