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title: In the secret chamber were found fifty wagon-loads of gold flax, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the secret chamber were found fifty wagon-loads of gold flax, and as much more was discovered buried. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 133

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In the secret chamber were found fifty wagon-loads of gold flax, and as much more was discovered buried.

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**What happens:** find, discover, bury · **To what, where:** fifty wagon loads, secret chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:26:133
# text = In the secret chamber were found fifty wagon-loads of gold flax, and as much more was discovered buried.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
21	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | fifty wagon loads of gold flax |  | the secret chamber |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: load=Topic |
| 2 | **discover** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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