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title: Everything was very small in the little house, but cleaner and neate… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything was very small in the little house, but cleaner and neater than anything you can imagine. Who acts: Everything, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 133

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Everything was very small in the little house, but cleaner and neater than anything you can imagine.

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**Who acts:** Everything, you · **What happens:** be, imagine · **To what, where:** little house

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, you), 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:pg540:47:133
# text = Everything was very small in the little house, but cleaner and neater than anything you can imagine.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cleaner	clean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	neater	neat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  | the little house |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than anything | tree rules |
| 3 | **imagine** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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