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title: And out came the two pretty boys, who quickly brought in the oak tab… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And out came the two pretty boys, who quickly brought in the oak tables, spread the silken covers, and laid out all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks. Who acts: two pretty boys. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 22

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And out came the two pretty boys, who quickly brought in the oak tables, spread the silken covers, and laid out all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks.

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**Who acts:** two pretty boys · **What happens:** come, bring, spread, lay out, refresh, sort · **To what, where:** two pretty boys, oak tables, silken covers, sorts, drinks, delicious dishes

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two pretty boys), 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:pg641:17:22
# text = And out came the two pretty boys, who quickly brought in the oak tables, spread the silken covers, and laid out all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
32	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the two pretty boys |  |  |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the two pretty boys |  |  | the oak tables |  | quickly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spread** | present |  | the silken covers |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cover=Theme |
| 4 | **lay out** | participle |  | all sorts of delicious dishes |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Result |
| 5 | **refresh** | gerund |  | drinks |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drink=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | delicious dishes |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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