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title: Some carried baskets full of diamonds, others golden cups of wonderf… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some carried baskets full of diamonds, others golden cups of wonderful workmanship, and amber, coral, and pearls, others, again, balanced upon their heads bales of the richest and most beautiful stuffs, while the rest brought fruit and flowers, and even birds. Who acts: Some, rest. A sentence of «Th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 55

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Some carried baskets full of diamonds, others golden cups of wonderful workmanship, and amber, coral, and pearls, others, again, balanced upon their heads bales of the richest and most beautiful stuffs, while the rest brought fruit and flowers, and even birds.

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**Who acts:** Some, rest · **What happens:** carry, balance, bring · **To what, where:** baskets, pearls, heads bales, fruit

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, rest), 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:pg503:7:55
# text = Some carried baskets full of diamonds, others golden cups of wonderful workmanship, and amber, coral, and pearls, others, again, balanced upon their heads bales of the richest and most beautiful stuffs, while the rest brought fruit and flowers, and even birds.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	amber	amber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	compound	_	_
31	bales	bale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
38	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
44	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	even	even	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Some | baskets |  |  |  | amber and coral *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 2 | **balance** | participle · passive |  | pearls and others |  | heads bales of the richest stuffs | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme upon bale=Location |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the rest | fruit and flowers and birds |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=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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