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title: The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups, and two bottles of wine. Who acts: genie, twelve silver plates. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 54

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The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups, and two bottles of wine.

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**Who acts:** genie, twelve silver plates · **What happens:** return, contain · **To what, where:** two bottles, rich meats

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genie, twelve silver plates), 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:pg503:12:54
# text = The genie returned with a silver bowl, twelve silver plates containing rich meats, two silver cups, and two bottles of wine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	genie	genie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	meats	meat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the genie | two bottles of wine |  |  |  | with a silver bowl and twelve silver plates | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | twelve silver plates *not said here* | rich meats and two silver cups |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meat=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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