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title: When Peppe uncovered his basket sure enough a layer of beautiful pur… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Peppe uncovered his basket sure enough a layer of beautiful purple figs met the king’s eyes, but underneath there was nothing but dirt. Who acts: Peppe, layer, nothing. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 117

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When Peppe uncovered his basket sure enough a layer of beautiful purple figs met the king’s eyes, but underneath there was nothing but dirt.

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**Who acts:** Peppe, layer, nothing · **What happens:** uncover, meet, be · **To what, where:** basket, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peppe, layer, nothing), 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:pg5615:37:117
# text = When Peppe uncovered his basket sure enough a layer of beautiful purple figs met the king’s eyes, but underneath there was nothing but dirt.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Peppe	Peppe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncover** | past | Peppe | king's basket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | a layer of beautiful purple figs | the king's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  | underneath *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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