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title: So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their p… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their pinafores, and it was not long before their pinafores were full, too. Who acts: baskets, ground, pinafores. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 138

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So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their pinafores, and it was not long before their pinafores were full, too.

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**Who acts:** baskets, ground, pinafores · **What happens:** put down, begin, fill, not be, be · **To what, where:** baskets, ground, pinafores

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baskets, ground, pinafores), 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:pg3454:24:138
# text = So they put the baskets down on the ground and began to fill their pinafores, and it was not long before their pinafores were full, too.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pinafores	pinafore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | baskets *= basket* | the baskets |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** | past | baskets *= basket* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fill** | to-infinitive | baskets *= basket* *not said here* | baskets's pinafores |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinafore=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | ground |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | baskets's pinafores |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |

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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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