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title: Upstairs and downstairs he wandered, through lofty halls, splendid r… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upstairs and downstairs he wandered, through lofty halls, splendid rooms, and lovely little boudoirs, everything beautifully arranged, and all kept in the most perfect order. Who acts: treasure, lovely little boudoirs. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with it
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 14

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Upstairs and downstairs he wandered, through lofty halls, splendid rooms, and lovely little boudoirs, everything beautifully arranged, and all kept in the most perfect order.

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**Who acts:** treasure, lovely little boudoirs · **What happens:** wander, arrange, keep · **To what, where:** lofty halls, all, perfect order

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure, lovely little boudoirs), 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:pg7277:55:14
# text = Upstairs and downstairs he wandered, through lofty halls, splendid rooms, and lovely little boudoirs, everything beautifully arranged, and all kept in the most perfect order.
1	Upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	boudoirs	boudoir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	conj	_	_
20	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | treasure |  |  | lofty halls and splendid rooms |  | downstairs, upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory |
| 2 | **arrange** | past | lovely little boudoirs |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | participle · passive |  | all |  | the perfect order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in order=Location |

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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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