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title: Often they found a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a stra… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Often they found a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a straw; they would sit down by the little fir-tree and say, ‘What a pretty little one this is!’ Who acts: companions. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 160

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Often they found a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a straw; they would sit down by the little fir-tree and say, ‘What a pretty little one this is!’

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**Who acts:** companions · **What happens:** find, string, sit down, say, be · **To what, where:** whole basketful · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions), 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:pg5615:10:160
# text = Often they found a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a straw; they would sit down by the little fir-tree and say, ‘What a pretty little one this is!’
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	basketful	basketful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	strung	string	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | companions *= companion* | a whole basketful and strung strawberries on a straw |  |  |  | often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basketful=Topic |
| 2 | **string** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sit down** | would | companions *= companion* |  |  |  |  | by the little fir tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | companions *= companion* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  | a little one  this *nmod* | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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