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title: Then he went with her, and inside the castle was a large hall with a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he went with her, and inside the castle was a large hall with a marble floor, and there were heaps of servants who threw open the great doors, and the walls were covered with beautiful tapestry, and in the apartments were gilded chairs and tables, and crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 63

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Then he went with her, and inside the castle was a large hall with a marble floor, and there were heaps of servants who threw open the great doors, and the walls were covered with beautiful tapestry, and in the apartments were gilded chairs and tables, and crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling, and all the rooms were beautifully carpeted.

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**Who acts:** flounder, heaps, servants, crystal chandeliers · **What happens:** go, be, throw, open, cover, gild · **To what, where:** large hall, castle, great doors, walls, chairs, apartments

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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 (flounder, heaps, servants, crystal chandeliers), 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:pg7277:54:63
# text = Then he went with her, and inside the castle was a large hall with a marble floor, and there were heaps of servants who threw open the great doors, and the walls were covered with beautiful tapestry, and in the apartments were gilded chairs and tables, and crystal chandeliers hung from the ceiling, and all the rooms were beautifully carpeted.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
48	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	chandeliers	chandelier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
55	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
61	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	63	det:predet	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nsubj:pass	_	_
64	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	aux:pass	_	_
65	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	carpeted	carpet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | flounder |  |  |  | then | with wife | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a large hall |  | the castle |  | with a marble floor | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | heaps of servants |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | past | servants |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **open** | infinitive | servants *not said here* | the great doors |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the walls |  |  |  | with beautiful tapestry | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tapestry=Theme |
| 7 | **gild** | past · passive | flounder *not said here* | chairs and tables |  | the apartments |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: chair=Destination |
| 8 | **hang** | past | crystal chandeliers |  |  | the ceiling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **carpet** | past · passive |  | all rooms |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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