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title: When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beauti… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones, dark red, and made in the shape of a ripe raspberry and with an inscription: ‘To Lisa and Aina’; beside them there was a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm: on it was inscribed ‘Ott
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 39

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When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones, dark red, and made in the shape of a ripe raspberry and with an inscription: ‘To Lisa and Aina’; beside them there was a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm: on it was inscribed ‘Otto, never destroy the helpless!’

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**Who acts:** girls, diamond breast pin, raspberry worm · **What happens:** look, see, make, be, inscribe, not destroy · **To what, where:** pair, shape, pin, helpless

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (girls, diamond breast pin, raspberry worm), 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:pg3454:25:39
# text = When the girls looked into the basket they saw a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones, dark red, and made in the shape of a ripe raspberry and with an inscription: ‘To Lisa and Aina’; beside them there was a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm: on it was inscribed ‘Otto, never destroy the helpless!’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	To	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Aina	Aina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
44	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
46	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	47	expl	_	_
47	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
49	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	63	punct	_	_
60	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
62	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	aux:pass	_	_
63	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl:relcl	_	_
64	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	Otto	Otto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
68	destroy	destroy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	63	parataxis	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	helpless	helpless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	63	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the girls |  |  |  |  | into the basket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into basket=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | girls *= girl* | a pair of most beautiful bracelets of precious stones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | participle | the girls *not said here* |  |  | the shape of a ripe raspberry and a inscription |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **be** | past | a diamond breast pin in the shape of a raspberry worm |  |  | there |  | beside girls *= girl* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Location |
| 5 | **inscribe** | past · passive | a raspberry worm *not said here* | pin |  |  |  | ‘ Otto | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **destroy** | infinitive |  | the helpless |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helpless=Patient |

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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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