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title: And all these arches met in the middle of the roof, and just there,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all these arches met in the middle of the roof, and just there, hung by a gold chain, an immense lamp made out of one big pearl hollowed out and quite transparent. Who acts: arches, immense lamp. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and t
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 54

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And all these arches met in the middle of the roof, and just there, hung by a gold chain, an immense lamp made out of one big pearl hollowed out and quite transparent.

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**Who acts:** arches, immense lamp · **What happens:** meet, hang, make out, hollow out · **To what, where:** middle, one big pearl

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arches, immense lamp), 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:pg7439:24:54
# text = And all these arches met in the middle of the roof, and just there, hung by a gold chain, an immense lamp made out of one big pearl hollowed out and quite transparent.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	hollowed	hollow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | participle | all arches |  |  | the middle of the roof |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | participle | all arches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a gold chain | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chain=Location |
| 3 | **make out** | participle | a immense lamp *not said here* | one big pearl |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pearl=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hollow out** | participle |  | one big pearl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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