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title: Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, u… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels-- all scattered in the bottom of the sea! Who acts: Wedges, jewels. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 34

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Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels-- all scattered in the bottom of the sea!

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**Who acts:** Wedges, jewels · **What happens:** unvalu, scatter · **To what, where:** jewels, all, bottom

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wedges, jewels), 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:pg3027:25:34
# text = Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, inestimable stones, unvalued jewels-- all scattered in the bottom of the sea!
1	Wedges	wedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	anchors	anchor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	inestimable	inestimable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	unvalued	unvalu	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unvalu** | past | Wedges of gold and great anchors and heaps of pearl and inestimable stones | jewels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scatter** | participle · passive | jewels *not said here* | all |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bottom=Destination |

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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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