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title: There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein were a spoon, knife and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2, sentence 75

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There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein were a spoon, knife and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies.

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**What happens:** place, be · **To what, where:** spoon

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, \_thomas Bodkin\_, part 2. 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:pg29021:8:75
# text = There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein were a spoon, knife and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
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	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	advmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	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 |  |  |  | there | before every one of King |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before one=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a spoon |  |  |  | wherein *property* | 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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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