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title: ‘Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,’ replied the ol… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,’ replied the old woman. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 8

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‘Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,’ replied the old woman.

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**What happens:** lie, reply · **To what, where:** smooth wood, rough bark, old woman

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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: 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:pg641:12:8
# text = ‘Under rough bark lies smooth wood and sweet kernel,’ replied the old woman.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kernel	kernel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lie** | present |  | smooth wood and sweet kernel |  | rough bark |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |

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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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