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title: He was placed in a luxurious chair, and rich wines and spices were s… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was placed in a luxurious chair, and rich wines and spices were set before him, and all sorts of delicate meats. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 135

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He was placed in a luxurious chair, and rich wines and spices were set before him, and all sorts of delicate meats.

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**What happens:** place, set, sort · **To what, where:** Jack, luxurious chair, rich wines, delicate meats

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. 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:pg14241:33:135
# text = He was placed in a luxurious chair, and rich wines and spices were set before him, and all sorts of delicate meats.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	luxurious	luxurious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wines	wine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spices	spice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | Jack |  | a luxurious chair |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chair=Destination |
| 2 | **set** | past · passive |  | rich wines and spices |  |  | before Jack | all sorts of delicate meats *obl* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | delicate meats |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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