--- title: Every morning she placed a large basin full of water on her window-s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Every morning she placed a large basin full of water on her window-sill, and as soon as the sun’s rays fell on the water the Rainbow appeared as clearly as it had ever done in the fountain. Who acts: heroine, rays, Rainbow, sun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroine, rays, Rainbow, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:23:78 # text = Every morning she placed a large basin full of water on her window-sill, and as soon as the sun’s rays fell on the water the Rainbow appeared as clearly as it had ever done in the fountain. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 sill sill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Rainbow Rainbow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 as as ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 38 advmod _ _ 38 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | past | heroine | a large basin | | heroine's window sill | morning | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme on sill=Destination | | 2 | **fall** | past | the sun's rays | | | the water | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on water=Location | | 3 | **appear** | past | the Rainbow | | | | | clearly, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past · perfect · passive | | basin | | the fountain | ever | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **ray** | | the sun | | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/79/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)