--- title: Dolls as life-like as human beings--the fir-tree had never seen any… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Dolls as life-like as human beings--the fir-tree had never seen any before were suspended among the green, and right up at the top was fixed a gold tinsel star; it was gorgeous, quite unusually gorgeous! Who acts: Dolls, star. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dolls, star), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:11:62 # text = Dolls as life-like as human beings--the fir-tree had never seen any before were suspended among the green, and right up at the top was fixed a gold tinsel star; it was gorgeous, quite unusually gorgeous! 1 Dolls doll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 17 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 before before SCONJ IN _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 26 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 tinsel tinsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 quite quite ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 unusually unusually ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive | Dolls *not said here* | the fir tree | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **suspend** | past · passive | | Dolls | | the green | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among green=Destination | | 3 | **fix** | past · passive | | right | | the top | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary star=Product | | 4 | **is** | past | star | | | | | gorgeous *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | star *not said here* | | | | | unusually *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/63/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/)