--- title: And outside the house was a large courtyard with horse and cow stabl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And outside the house was a large courtyard with horse and cow stables and a coach-house--all fine buildings; and a splendid garden with most beautiful flowers and fruit, and in a park quite a league long were deer and roe and hares, and everything one could wish for. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, everything one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:54:65 # text = And outside the house was a large courtyard with horse and cow stables and a coach-house--all fine buildings; and a splendid garden with most beautiful flowers and fruit, and in a park quite a league long were deer and roe and hares, and everything one could wish for. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 2 outside outside ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 stables stable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ _ 21 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 buildings building NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 39 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 41 det:predet _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 league league NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ _ 42 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 44 advmod _ _ 43 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 roe roe NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 hares hare NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 52 compound _ _ 52 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 53 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the house | | | | | outside a large courtyard and cow stables and a coach house and all fine buildings and a splendid garden with most beautiful flowers and fruit and a park and quite league; with horse | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | past | | deer and roe and hares | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wish** | could | everything one | quite league *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot league=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/66/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/54/)