--- title: 'It is that bright stone which fell out of the folds of your turban… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'It is that bright stone which fell out of the folds of your turban a few days ago,' she answered, playing with his finger; 'the little stone with all those funny marks upon it. Who acts: course, bright stone, wedding. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/) / 75 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 75 'It is that bright stone which fell out of the folds of your turban a few days ago,' she answered, playing with his finger; 'the little stone with all those funny marks upon it. **Who acts:** course, bright stone, wedding · **What happens:** be, fall, answer, play · **To what, where:** bright stone, folds This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, bright stone, wedding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:14:75 # text = 'It is that bright stone which fell out of the folds of your turban a few days ago,' she answered, playing with his finger; 'the little stone with all those funny marks upon it. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 turban turban NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 ago ago ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 36 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 39 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | course | bright stone and the little stone with all funny marks upon finger | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | past | bright stone and the little stone with all funny marks upon finger | | | the folds of your turban | | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out fold=Location | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | wedding | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play** | gerund | wedding *not said here* | | | | | with stone's finger | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with finger=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/76/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/)