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title: ‘Plant these two laurels in two large pots, rake them over with the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Plant these two laurels in two large pots, rake them over with the rake, water them with the bucket, and wipe them with the towel. Who acts: Plant. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 43

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‘Plant these two laurels in two large pots, rake them over with the rake, water them with the bucket, and wipe them with the towel.

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**Who acts:** Plant · **What happens:** rake over, wipe · **To what, where:** laurel

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plant), 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:pg540:2:43
# text = ‘Plant these two laurels in two large pots, rake them over with the rake, water them with the bucket, and wipe them with the towel.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	laurels	laurel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	rake	rake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rake over** | infinitive | Plant | laurel |  |  |  | with the rake and water  rake with the bucket | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **wipe** | infinitive | Plant *not said here* | laurel |  |  |  | with the towel | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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