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title: Their parents lived opposite one another in two attics, and out on t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their parents lived opposite one another in two attics, and out on the leads they had put two boxes filled with flowers. Who acts: parents, people. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 49

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Their parents lived opposite one another in two attics, and out on the leads they had put two boxes filled with flowers.

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**Who acts:** parents, people · **What happens:** live, put, fill · **To what, where:** opposite one, two attics, two boxes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, people), 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:pg5615:8:49
# text = Their parents lived opposite one another in two attics, and out on the leads they had put two boxes filled with flowers.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	fixed	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	attics	attic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leads	lead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | people's parents | opposite one |  | two attics |  | out *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attic=Location |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect | people | two boxes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | two boxes *not said here* |  |  |  | with flowers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flower=Instrument |

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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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