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title: He put it on the butter-cask, and on the till, and all were of the s… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He put it on the butter-cask, and on the till, and all were of the same opinion as the waste-paper tub. and one must believe the majority. Who acts: student, all, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 56

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He put it on the butter-cask, and on the till, and all were of the same opinion as the waste-paper tub. and one must believe the majority.

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**Who acts:** student, all, one · **What happens:** put, be, believe · **To what, where:** tongue, butter cask, majority

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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 (student, all, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:124`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:2:56
# text = He put it on the butter-cask, and on the till, and all were of the same opinion as the waste-paper tub. and one must believe the majority.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	one	one	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	nsubj	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | student | tongue |  | the butter cask and the till |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on cask=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | of the same opinion; as the paper tub | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | must | one | the majority |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer majority=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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