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title: The pomegranates were garnets, the marigolds topazes, the daffodils… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The pomegranates were garnets, the marigolds topazes, the daffodils yellow diamonds, the violets sapphires, the corn-flowers turquoises, the tulips amethysts, opals and diamonds, so that the garden borders blazed like the sun. The Golden Branch itself had become as tall as a forest tree, and sparkle
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 82

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The pomegranates were garnets, the marigolds topazes, the daffodils yellow diamonds, the violets sapphires, the corn-flowers turquoises, the tulips amethysts, opals and diamonds, so that the garden borders blazed like the sun. The Golden Branch itself had become as tall as a forest tree, and sparkled with ruby cherries to its topmost twig.

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**Who acts:** pomegranates, garden borders, Golden Branch · **What happens:** be, blaze, become, sparkle · **To what, where:** garnets, sun.

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (pomegranates, garden borders, Golden Branch), 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:pg540:36:82
# text = The pomegranates were garnets, the marigolds topazes, the daffodils yellow diamonds, the violets sapphires, the corn-flowers turquoises, the tulips amethysts, opals and diamonds, so that the garden borders blazed like the sun. The Golden Branch itself had become as tall as a forest tree, and sparkled with ruby cherries to its topmost twig.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pomegranates	pomegranate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	garnets	garnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	marigolds	marigold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	topazes	topaz	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	daffodils	daffodil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	turquoises	turquoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tulips	tulip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	amethysts	amethyst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	opals	opal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	44	nmod:unmarked	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	acl:relcl	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
62	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the pomegranates | garnets and yellow diamonds and violets sapphires and flowers turquoises and tulips amethysts and opals and diamonds |  |  |  | marigolds topazes and the daffodils *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **blaze** | past | the garden borders |  |  |  |  | like the sun. | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | the Golden Branch  Branch | the sun. *not said here* |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient sun.=Result |
| 4 | **sparkle** | participle | the garden borders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ruby cherries; to Branch's topmost twig | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with cherry=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 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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