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title: Notwithstanding, the youth felt his spirits return to him when he en… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Notwithstanding, the youth felt his spirits return to him when he entered the lower regions of the castle, for in the kitchen the most tempting and delicious food was spread out, the cellars were full of the most costly wine, and the store-room crammed with pots of every sort of jam you can imagine.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 16

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Notwithstanding, the youth felt his spirits return to him when he entered the lower regions of the castle, for in the kitchen the most tempting and delicious food was spread out, the cellars were full of the most costly wine, and the store-room crammed with pots of every sort of jam you can imagine.

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**Who acts:** youth, spirits, spirit, cellars, store room, you · **What happens:** notwithstand, feel, return, enter, spread out, be · **To what, where:** youth, lower regions, tempting, jam

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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 (youth, spirits, spirit, cellars), 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:pg7277:55:16
# text = Notwithstanding, the youth felt his spirits return to him when he entered the lower regions of the castle, for in the kitchen the most tempting and delicious food was spread out, the cellars were full of the most costly wine, and the store-room crammed with pots of every sort of jam you can imagine.
1	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	27	advmod	_	_
27	tempting	tempting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	42	advmod	_	_
42	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	crammed	cram	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	det	_	_
55	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | present | youth's spirits |  | youth |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result |
| 4 | **enter** | past | spirit | the lower regions of the castle |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme region=Destination |
| 5 | **spread out** | past · passive |  | the tempting and delicious food |  |  |  | for the kitchen | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the cellars |  |  |  |  | of the costly wine; full *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **cram** | participle | the store room |  |  |  |  | with pots of every sort of jam | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **imagine** | can | you | jam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jam=Theme |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | jam |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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