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title: There were soft rugs and cushions of all the colours of the rainbow,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were soft rugs and cushions of all the colours of the rainbow, and beautiful carpets that looked like the finest moss, and flowers and trees with curiously crooked branches, both green and yellow, white and red, and there were also little fountains which sprang up from the most beautiful snail
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 11

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There were soft rugs and cushions of all the colours of the rainbow, and beautiful carpets that looked like the finest moss, and flowers and trees with curiously crooked branches, both green and yellow, white and red, and there were also little fountains which sprang up from the most beautiful snail-shells, and fell into bright mussel-shells, and at the same time made a most delightful music, which filled the whole palace.

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**Who acts:** soft rugs, beautiful carpets, flowers, little fountains, delightful music · **What happens:** be, look, sprang up, fall, make, fill · **To what, where:** little fountains, beautiful snail shells, bright mussel shells, delightful music, whole palace

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft rugs, beautiful carpets, flowers, little fountains), 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:pg5615:27:11
# text = There were soft rugs and cushions of all the colours of the rainbow, and beautiful carpets that looked like the finest moss, and flowers and trees with curiously crooked branches, both green and yellow, white and red, and there were also little fountains which sprang up from the most beautiful snail-shells, and fell into bright mussel-shells, and at the same time made a most delightful music, which filled the whole palace.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rugs	rug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc:preconj	_	_
35	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	45	expl	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	also	also	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	sprang	sprang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
54	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	55	advmod	_	_
55	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
56	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
62	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
63	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
64	mussel	mussel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
69	at	at	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
73	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	conj	_	_
74	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
75	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	76	advmod	_	_
76	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
77	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
79	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	80	nsubj	_	_
80	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	77	acl:relcl	_	_
81	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
82	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	83	amod	_	_
83	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | soft rugs and cushions of all colours of the rainbow and beautiful carpets |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | beautiful carpets |  |  |  |  | like the finest moss | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | flowers with crooked branches and trees | little fountains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sprang up** | present | little fountains |  |  | the beautiful snail shells |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into bright mussel shells *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into shell=Result |
| 6 | **make** | past |  | a delightful music |  |  | time |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product |
| 7 | **fill** | past | a delightful music | the whole palace |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent palace=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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