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title: In the smaller pocket on the right side were several round flat piec… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the smaller pocket on the right side were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different sizes. 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 19

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In the smaller pocket on the right side were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different sizes.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** several round flat pieces, smaller pocket

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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: 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:pg503:44:19
# text = In the smaller pocket on the right side were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different sizes.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | several round flat pieces and different sizes |  | the smaller pocket on the right side |  | of white metal | 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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