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title: Before her stood the big earthenware water jars, one of which contai… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before her stood the big earthenware water jars, one of which contained oil, the other a liquid shining like gold. Who acts: Lizina, big earthenware water, other liquid. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 31

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Before her stood the big earthenware water jars, one of which contained oil, the other a liquid shining like gold.

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**Who acts:** Lizina, big earthenware water, other liquid · **What happens:** stand, jar, contain, shine · **To what, where:** one, oil

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lizina, big earthenware water, other liquid), 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:pg2435:36:31
# text = Before her stood the big earthenware water jars, one of which contained oil, the other a liquid shining like gold.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	jars	jar	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Lizina | one |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jar** | present | the big earthenware water |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **contain** | past |  | oil |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot oil=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | a other liquid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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