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title: There were the caskets, blue and red, green and yellow, silver and g… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were the caskets, blue and red, green and yellow, silver and gold; and there in the corner stood a little black casket just like the one her stepsister had brought home. Who acts: caskets. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 57

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There were the caskets, blue and red, green and yellow, silver and gold; and there in the corner stood a little black casket just like the one her stepsister had brought home.

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**Who acts:** caskets · **What happens:** be, stand, bring · **To what, where:** little black casket, corner, stepsister

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caskets), 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:pg3027:11:57
# text = There were the caskets, blue and red, green and yellow, silver and gold; and there in the corner stood a little black casket just like the one her stepsister had brought home.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	caskets	casket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	casket	casket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	stepsister	stepsister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the caskets and silver and gold |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the caskets and silver and gold *not said here* | a little black casket |  | the corner; there |  | like the one | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent casket=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | girl's stepsister |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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