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title: When the basket was uncovered some beautiful purple figs lay on the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the basket was uncovered some beautiful purple figs lay on the top, but underneath there was nothing but horns. Who acts: beautiful purple figs, nothing. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 128

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When the basket was uncovered some beautiful purple figs lay on the top, but underneath there was nothing but horns.

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**Who acts:** beautiful purple figs, nothing · **What happens:** uncover, lay, be · **To what, where:** basket, top

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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 (beautiful purple figs, 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:pg5615:37:128
# text = When the basket was uncovered some beautiful purple figs lay on the top, but underneath there was nothing but horns.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	nsubj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncover** | past · passive |  | the basket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | present | some beautiful purple figs |  |  | the top |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on top=Destination |
| 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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