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title: The plant had disappeared and in its stead was a thick syrup, just a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The plant had disappeared and in its stead was a thick syrup, just as the book had said there would be. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 59

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The plant had disappeared and in its stead was a thick syrup, just as the book had said there would be.

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**What happens:** disappear, be, say · **To what, where:** plant, thick syrup, stead, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. 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:pg3027:38:59
# text = The plant had disappeared and in its stead was a thick syrup, just as the book had said there would be.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	syrup	syrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the plant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a thick syrup |  | plant's stead |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the book |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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