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title: One person said that hidden treasure was to be found there; another… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 8

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One person said that hidden treasure was to be found there; another that the richest food was always to be had there, although the castle was uninhabited; and a third, that an evil spirit dwelt within the walls, so terrible, that anyone who forced his way into the castle came out of it more dead than alive.

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**Who acts:** One person, castle, evil spirit, third · **What happens:** say, find, have, be, dwell, force · **To what, where:** hidden treasure, richest food, way, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One person, castle, evil spirit, third), 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:pg7277:55:8
# text = One person said that hidden treasure was to be found there; another that the richest food was always to be had there, although the castle was uninhabited; and a third, that an evil spirit dwelt within the walls, so terrible, that anyone who forced his way into the castle came out of it more dead than alive.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
40	within	within	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	56	nsubj	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
56	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
57	out	out	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	_
60	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	61	advmod	_	_
61	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	advcl	_	_
62	than	than	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One person |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | hidden treasure |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past · passive |  | the richest food |  | there |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | the castle |  |  |  |  | uninhabited *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **dwell** | past | a evil spirit |  |  |  |  | within the walls | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **force** | past |  | spirit's way |  | the castle |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
| 7 | **come out** | past | a third | castle |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |

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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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