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title: Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and se… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and several rooms, which yet remained in fair preservation, gave evidence of former splendour. Who acts: handsome pillars, several rooms. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 99

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Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and several rooms, which yet remained in fair preservation, gave evidence of former splendour.

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**Who acts:** handsome pillars, several rooms · **What happens:** stand, remain, give, evidence · **To what, where:** heaps, several rooms, fair preservation, evidence, former splendour

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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 (handsome pillars, several rooms), 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:pg7277:7:99
# text = Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and several rooms, which yet remained in fair preservation, gave evidence of former splendour.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	preservation	preservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | some handsome pillars |  |  | the heaps of ruins | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst heap=Location |
| 2 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | several rooms |  | fair preservation | yet |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | past | several rooms | evidence of former splendour |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme |
| 4 | **evidence** |  |  | former splendour |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «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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