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title: When breakfast was over, he took them into another room, where there… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When breakfast was over, he took them into another room, where there was nothing but heaps of gold, and silver, and diamonds, and silks, and satins; and on a table there was lying three sets of crowns: a gold crown was in a silver crown, and that was lying in a copper crown. Who acts: breakfast, joy
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 30

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When breakfast was over, he took them into another room, where there was nothing but heaps of gold, and silver, and diamonds, and silks, and satins; and on a table there was lying three sets of crowns: a gold crown was in a silver crown, and that was lying in a copper crown.

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**Who acts:** breakfast, joy, gold crown, silver crown · **What happens:** be, take, lie · **To what, where:** lovers, nothing, room, three sets, silver crown, copper crown

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (breakfast, joy, gold crown, silver crown), 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:pg3454:11:30
# text = When breakfast was over, he took them into another room, where there was nothing but heaps of gold, and silver, and diamonds, and silks, and satins; and on a table there was lying three sets of crowns: a gold crown was in a silver crown, and that was lying in a copper crown.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	satins	satin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
38	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	39	expl	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
41	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	acl	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	_
62	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | breakfast |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | joy | lovers *= lover* |  |  |  | diamonds *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | nothing |  | another room |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | joy *not said here* | three sets of crowns and a silver crown |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | a gold crown |  |  | a silver crown |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** | past · progressive | a silver crown | a silver crown *not said here* |  | a copper crown |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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