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title: They went in, and inside the cottage was a tiny hall, and a beautifu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went in, and inside the cottage was a tiny hall, and a beautiful sitting-room, and a bedroom in which stood a bed, a kitchen and a dining-room all furnished with the best of everything, and fitted up with every kind of tin and copper utensil. Who acts: fisherman, bedroom, dining room. A sentenc
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 32

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They went in, and inside the cottage was a tiny hall, and a beautiful sitting-room, and a bedroom in which stood a bed, a kitchen and a dining-room all furnished with the best of everything, and fitted up with every kind of tin and copper utensil.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, bedroom, dining room · **What happens:** go in, be, stand, furnish, fit up · **To what, where:** beautiful sitting room, tiny hall, cottage, bed, all

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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 (fisherman, bedroom, dining room), 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:pg7277:54:32
# text = They went in, and inside the cottage was a tiny hall, and a beautiful sitting-room, and a bedroom in which stood a bed, a kitchen and a dining-room all furnished with the best of everything, and fitted up with every kind of tin and copper utensil.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	det	_	_
50	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	utensil	utensil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | fisherman | a beautiful sitting room |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a tiny hall |  | the cottage |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | a bedroom | a bed |  |  |  | a kitchen and a dining room *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus |
| 4 | **furnish** | participle · passive | a dining room *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **fit up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with every kind of tin and copper utensil | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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