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title: In course of time, this came also, and the queen took the little gir… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In course of time, this came also, and the queen took the little girl out of the basket, and placed it with her son in a golden cradle which glittered with precious stones. Who acts: this, queen, golden cradle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, wit
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 39

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In course of time, this came also, and the queen took the little girl out of the basket, and placed it with her son in a golden cradle which glittered with precious stones.

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**Who acts:** this, queen, golden cradle · **What happens:** come, take, place, glitter · **To what, where:** little girl, basket, golden cradle

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, queen, golden cradle), 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:pg641:12:39
# text = In course of time, this came also, and the queen took the little girl out of the basket, and placed it with her son in a golden cradle which glittered with precious stones.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | this |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the queen | the little girl |  | the basket |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme out basket=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **place** | past | this *not said here* | basket |  | a golden cradle |  | with queen's son | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cradle=Destination |
| 4 | **glitter** | past | a golden cradle |  |  |  |  | with precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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