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title: No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real “Horn of Plen… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real “Horn of Plenty,” from which all this prosperity overflowed. Who acts: one, barrel, prosperity. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 34

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No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real “Horn of Plenty,” from which all this prosperity overflowed.

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**Who acts:** one, barrel, prosperity · **What happens:** suspect, be, overflow · **To what, where:** real Horn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, barrel, prosperity), 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:pg2435:17:34
# text = No one suspected that his barrel of nails was the real “Horn of Plenty,” from which all this prosperity overflowed.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Plenty	Plenty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	overflowed	overflow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suspect** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | father's barrel of nails | the real Horn |  |  |  | of Plenty | tree rules |
| 3 | **overflow** | past | all prosperity |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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