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title: After choosing a vast quantity, which she divided between her sister… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After choosing a vast quantity, which she divided between her sisters--for she had made a heap of the wonderful dresses for each of them--she opened the last chest, which was full of gold. Who acts: Beauty, last chest. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 37

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After choosing a vast quantity, which she divided between her sisters--for she had made a heap of the wonderful dresses for each of them--she opened the last chest, which was full of gold.

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**Who acts:** Beauty, last chest · **What happens:** choose, divide, make, open, be · **To what, where:** vast quantity, heap, last chest

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, last chest), 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:pg503:15:37
# text = After choosing a vast quantity, which she divided between her sisters--for she had made a heap of the wonderful dresses for each of them--she opened the last chest, which was full of gold.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | gerund | Beauty *not said here* | a vast quantity |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 2 | **divide** | past | Beauty | a vast quantity |  |  |  | between Beauty's sisters | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Beauty | a heap of the wonderful dresses for each |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product |
| 4 | **open** | past | Beauty | the last chest |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the last chest |  |  |  |  | of gold; 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 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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