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title: She fetched a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the enchan… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She fetched a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the enchanted garden, which sparkled and shone like the most beautiful jewels. Who acts: mother, magic fruits. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 69

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She fetched a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the enchanted garden, which sparkled and shone like the most beautiful jewels.

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**Who acts:** mother, magic fruits · **What happens:** fetch, lay, enchant, sparkle, shine · **To what, where:** napkin

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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 (mother, magic fruits), 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:pg503:12:69
# text = She fetched a napkin and laid in it the magic fruits from the enchanted garden, which sparkled and shone like the most beautiful jewels.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	napkin	napkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | past | mother | a napkin |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | participle | mother *not said here* |  |  | napkin |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination |
| 3 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sparkle** | past | the magic fruits from the enchanted garden |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shine** | participle | the magic fruits from the enchanted garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the beautiful jewels | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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