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title: The hall was furnished in a manner equally grand, and at one end of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The hall was furnished in a manner equally grand, and at one end of it was a glorious couch of velvet, silk and gold, and there sate Burd Ellen, combing her golden hair with a silver comb. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 56

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The hall was furnished in a manner equally grand, and at one end of it was a glorious couch of velvet, silk and gold, and there sate Burd Ellen, combing her golden hair with a silver comb.

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**What happens:** furnish, be, sate, comb · **To what, where:** hall, manner, glorious couch, one end, Burd, golden hair

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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: 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:pg7439:24:56
# text = The hall was furnished in a manner equally grand, and at one end of it was a glorious couch of velvet, silk and gold, and there sate Burd Ellen, combing her golden hair with a silver comb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	sate	sate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | past · passive |  | the hall |  | a manner |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a glorious couch |  |  | at one end | of hall; of velvet and silk and gold | tree rules |
| 3 | **sate** | infinitive |  | Burd |  | there |  |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument burd=Theme |
| 4 | **comb** | gerund |  | Burd's golden hair |  |  |  | with a silver comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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:** «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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