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title: This splendid castle and this enchanted land are hers, but for hundr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 59

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This splendid castle and this enchanted land are hers, but for hundreds of years she has slept this magic sleep, and during all that time no human being has been able to find their way here.

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**Who acts:** child, human · **What happens:** enchant, be, sleep, find · **To what, where:** child, magic sleep, time, way

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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 (child, human), 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:pg7277:55:59
# text = This splendid castle and this enchanted land are hers, but for hundreds of years she has slept this magic sleep, and during all that time no human being has been able to find their way here.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	during	during	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
29	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
30	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
33	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** | present · perfect | child | this magic sleep |  |  |  | for hundreds of years | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund · perfect | human | all time *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | human *not said here* | hundreds's way |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |

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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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