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title: “In the right coat pocket of the great Man-Mountain we found only on… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In the right coat pocket of the great Man-Mountain we found only one great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to cover the carpet of your Majesty’s chief room of state. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 14

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“In the right coat pocket of the great Man-Mountain we found only one great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to cover the carpet of your Majesty’s chief room of state.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** find, cover · **To what, where:** one great piece, right coat pocket, carpet

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg503:44:14
# text = “In the right coat pocket of the great Man-Mountain we found only one great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to cover the carpet of your Majesty’s chief room of state.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | past | we | one great piece of coarse cloth |  | the right coat pocket of the great Man and Mountain |  | large *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic |
| 2 | **cover** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the carpet of your Majesty's chief room of state |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme carpet=Destination |

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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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