--- title: At the foot of the great staircase they descended, and proceeded to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the foot of the great staircase they descended, and proceeded to the Queen’s apartments, though everyone had run together to see this marvel, till it was quite difficult to make a way through the crowd; and exclamations of wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:8:148 # text = At the foot of the great staircase they descended, and proceeded to the Queen’s apartments, though everyone had run together to see this marvel, till it was quite difficult to make a way through the crowd; and exclamations of wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 staircase staircase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 descended descend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 till till SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 expl _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 csubj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 exclamations exclamation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 49 det _ _ 49 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 50 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 loveliness loveliness NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **descend** | past | maidens *= maiden* | exclamations of wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess | | the foot of the great staircase | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **proceed** | past | maidens *= maiden* *not said here* | | | | | to the Queen's apartments | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run** | past · perfect | everyone | | | | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | this marvel | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | difficult *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a way | | the crowd | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | | 7 | **exclaim** | | | wonder rose on all sides at the loveliness of the strange Princess | | | | | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/149/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/)