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title: She then had recourse to the golden pomegranate, and on opening it f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She then had recourse to the golden pomegranate, and on opening it found that all the seeds were as many little violins which flew up in the vaulted roof and at once began playing melodiously. Who acts: Fairy, seeds, many little violins. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glas
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 28

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She then had recourse to the golden pomegranate, and on opening it found that all the seeds were as many little violins which flew up in the vaulted roof and at once began playing melodiously.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, seeds, many little violins · **What happens:** have, open, find, be, fly up, vault · **To what, where:** recourse, vaulted roof

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, seeds, many little violins), 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:pg640:24:28
# text = She then had recourse to the golden pomegranate, and on opening it found that all the seeds were as many little violins which flew up in the vaulted roof and at once began playing melodiously.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	recourse	recourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	violins	violin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	vaulted	vault	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	obl	_	_
34	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	melodiously	melodiously	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Fairy | recourse |  |  | then | to the golden pomegranate | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  | recourse |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | all seeds |  |  |  |  | as many little violins | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly up** | past | many little violins |  |  | the vaulted roof |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location |
| 6 | **vault** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **begin** | past | many little violins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **play** | gerund | many little violins *not said here* |  |  |  |  | melodiously *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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