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title: To his amazement the room was absolutely bare, save for the portrait… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: To his amazement the room was absolutely bare, save for the portrait of a beautiful girl, that hung on one of the walls. Who acts: room, you, beautiful girl, king. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 15

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To his amazement the room was absolutely bare, save for the portrait of a beautiful girl, that hung on one of the walls.

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**Who acts:** room, you, beautiful girl, king · **What happens:** be, save, hang, amaze, portray · **To what, where:** amazement, beautiful girl

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, you, beautiful girl, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:11:15
# text = To his amazement the room was absolutely bare, save for the portrait of a beautiful girl, that hung on one of the walls.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the room | king's amazement *not said here* |  |  |  | absolutely, bare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to king's amazement; for the portrait of a beautiful girl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for portrait=Source |
| 3 | **hang** | past | a beautiful girl |  |  |  |  | on one of the walls | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location |
| 4 | **amaze** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **portray** |  |  | a beautiful girl |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication 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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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