--- title: Everything that a baby could possibly wear or play with was there, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Everything that a baby could possibly wear or play with was there, and besides, they had other and more precious gifts to give her, which only children who have fairies for godmothers can ever hope to possess. Who acts: Everything, babies, precious gifts, children. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/60/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/) / 60 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 60 Everything that a baby could possibly wear or play with was there, and besides, they had other and more precious gifts to give her, which only children who have fairies for godmothers can ever hope to possess. **Who acts:** Everything, babies, precious gifts, children · **What happens:** wear, play, be, have, give, hope · **To what, where:** that, gift, fairies This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, babies, precious gifts, children), 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:pg3027:22:60 # text = Everything that a baby could possibly wear or play with was there, and besides, they had other and more precious gifts to give her, which only children who have fairies for godmothers can ever hope to possess. 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 besides besides INTJ UH _ 18 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 30 det _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 godmothers godmother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 38 hope hope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 possess possess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | could | Everything | that | | | | possibly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent that=Source | | 2 | **play** | infinitive | Everything *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | babies *= baby* | | | | | other *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | precious gifts and which children *not said here* | | gift | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | which children | fairies | | | | for godmothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient | | 7 | **hope** | can | precious gifts and which children | | | | ever | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **possess** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | precious gifts and which children *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)