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title: But the whole shop, from the till down to the shavings, from that ni… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the whole shop, from the till down to the shavings, from that night changed their opinion of the tub, and they looked up to it, and had such faith in it that they were under the impression that when the grocer read the art and drama critiques out of the paper in the evenings, it all came from th
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 73

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But the whole shop, from the till down to the shavings, from that night changed their opinion of the tub, and they looked up to it, and had such faith in it that they were under the impression that when the grocer read the art and drama critiques out of the paper in the evenings, it all came from the tub.

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**Who acts:** whole shop, Goblin, grocer, tub, shavings · **What happens:** change, look up, have, be, read, come · **To what, where:** opinion, tub, such faith, impression, paper

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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 (whole shop, Goblin, grocer, tub), 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:pg5615:2:73
# text = But the whole shop, from the till down to the shavings, from that night changed their opinion of the tub, and they looked up to it, and had such faith in it that they were under the impression that when the grocer read the art and drama critiques out of the paper in the evenings, it all came from the tub.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shavings	shaving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	under	under	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
44	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	47	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	grocer	grocer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	critiques	critique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
62	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	advmod	_	_
63	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
64	from	from	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | the whole shop and the till and that night | shavings's opinion of the tub |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient |
| 2 | **look up** | past | Goblin |  | tub |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | the whole shop and the till and that night *not said here* | such faith |  | tub |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Goblin |  |  | the impression |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **read** | past | the grocer | the impression |  | the paper | evening |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient art=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | past | tub |  |  | the tub |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tub=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **opine** |  | shavings *= shaving* | the tub |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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