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title: She did not use it when she was asleep, and on whatever object in th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She did not use it when she was asleep, and on whatever object in the room he put it that thing began to speak, and spoke out its thoughts and feelings just as well as the lady to whom it belonged. Who acts: wife, room, thing, butter. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fair
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 48

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She did not use it when she was asleep, and on whatever object in the room he put it that thing began to speak, and spoke out its thoughts and feelings just as well as the lady to whom it belonged.

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**Who acts:** wife, room, thing, butter · **What happens:** not use, be, put, begin, speak, speak out · **To what, where:** butter, object, thoughts · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, room, thing, butter), 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:pg5615:2:48
# text = She did not use it when she was asleep, and on whatever object in the room he put it that thing began to speak, and spoke out its thoughts and feelings just as well as the lady to whom it belonged.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	39	cc	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	fixed	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nmod	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** | past · do-support | wife | butter |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | room | butter |  | whatever object in the room |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on object=Destination |
| 4 | **begin** | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **speak out** *speech: other* | past |  | butter's thoughts and feelings |  |  |  | the lady *obl* | tree rules |
| 7 | **belong** | past | butter |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **think** |  | butter |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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