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title: There were many other playthings on the table on which they were bei… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were many other playthings on the table on which they were being set out, but the nicest of all was a pretty little castle made of cardboard, with windows through which you could see into the rooms. Who acts: many other playthings, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 6

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There were many other playthings on the table on which they were being set out, but the nicest of all was a pretty little castle made of cardboard, with windows through which you could see into the rooms.

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**Who acts:** many other playthings, you · **What happens:** be, set out, make, see · **To what, where:** playthings, table, nicest pretty little castle, windows

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many other playthings, you), 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:pg640:50:6
# text = There were many other playthings on the table on which they were being set out, but the nicest of all was a pretty little castle made of cardboard, with windows through which you could see into the rooms.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nicest	nice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | many other playthings on the table |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past · passive |  | playthings *= plaything* |  | the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | many other playthings on the table *not said here* | a nicest pretty little castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | a nicest pretty little castle *not said here* |  |  |  | of cardboard; with windows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **see** | could | you |  |  | windows |  | into the rooms | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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