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title: On the floor of the ruined chamber--which was but scantily lighted b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the floor of the ruined chamber--which was but scantily lighted by a small barred window--sat a large screech owl. Who acts: small barred window. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 107

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On the floor of the ruined chamber--which was but scantily lighted by a small barred window--sat a large screech owl.

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**Who acts:** small barred window · **What happens:** ruin, light, bar, sit · **To what, where:** ruined chamber, large screech owl, floor

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small barred window), 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:pg7277:7:107
# text = On the floor of the ruined chamber--which was but scantily lighted by a small barred window--sat a large screech owl.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	scantily	scantily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **light** | past · passive | a small barred window | the ruined chamber |  |  |  | scantily *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 3 | **bar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **sit** | past |  | a large screech owl |  | the floor of the ruined chamber |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent owl=Theme on floor=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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