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title: But Ciccu uncovered the basket, and there lay a pile of beautiful ri… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Ciccu uncovered the basket, and there lay a pile of beautiful ripe figs. Who acts: Ciccu. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 12

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But Ciccu uncovered the basket, and there lay a pile of beautiful ripe figs.

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**Who acts:** Ciccu · **What happens:** uncover, lay · **To what, where:** basket, pile

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu), 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:pg5615:38:12
# text = But Ciccu uncovered the basket, and there lay a pile of beautiful ripe figs.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncover** | past | Ciccu | the basket |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | present | Ciccu *not said here* | a pile of beautiful ripe figs |  | there |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Result |

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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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