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title: The Goblin laid the tongue on the tub in which were the old newspape… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goblin laid the tongue on the tub in which were the old newspapers. Who acts: Goblin. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 50

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The Goblin laid the tongue on the tub in which were the old newspapers.

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**Who acts:** Goblin · **What happens:** lay, be · **To what, where:** tongue, tub, old newspapers

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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 (Goblin), 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:pg5615:2:50
# text = The Goblin laid the tongue on the tub in which were the old newspapers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goblin	Goblin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the Goblin | the tongue |  | the tub |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme on tub=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the old newspapers |  |  | 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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