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title: In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a silver cover,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a silver cover, which we could not lift. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 15

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In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a silver cover, which we could not lift.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** see, not lift · **To what, where:** huge silver chest, left pocket, silver cover

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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:pg503:44:15
# text = In the left pocket we saw a huge silver chest, with a silver cover, which we could not lift.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	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 | **see** | past | we | a huge silver chest |  | the left pocket |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **lift** | could | we | a silver cover |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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