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title: In the middle of the table was a large wooden bowl, with wooden spoo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the table was a large wooden bowl, with wooden spoons placed in a circle round it, so that each might dip in his turn. Who acts: each. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 62

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In the middle of the table was a large wooden bowl, with wooden spoons placed in a circle round it, so that each might dip in his turn.

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**Who acts:** each · **What happens:** be, place, dip · **To what, where:** large wooden bowl, middle, wooden spoons, circle

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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 (each), 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:pg3454:25:62
# text = In the middle of the table was a large wooden bowl, with wooden spoons placed in a circle round it, so that each might dip in his turn.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a large wooden bowl and wooden spoons |  | the middle of the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **place** | participle |  | wooden spoons *not said here* |  | a circle round circle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in circle=Destination |
| 3 | **dip** | might | each |  |  |  |  | in man's turn | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in turn=Attribute |

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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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