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title: ‘“My fate was quite different,” said the iron pot, near which the ma… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘“My fate was quite different,” said the iron pot, near which the matches lay. Who acts: fate, different, matches, My. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 1

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‘“My fate was quite different,” said the iron pot, near which the matches lay.

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**Who acts:** fate, different, matches, My · **What happens:** be, say, lay, fate · **To what, where:** iron pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate, different, matches, My), 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:pg5615:5:1
# text = ‘“My fate was quite different,” said the iron pot, near which the matches lay.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | My fate |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | different | the iron pot |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pot=Topic |
| 3 | **lay** | present | the matches |  |  | the iron pot |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near which=Destination |
| 4 | **fate** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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