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title: But, instead of the gold pieces for which they looked, the rice turn… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, instead of the gold pieces for which they looked, the rice turned into berries with such a horrible smell that they were obliged to run away, after smashing the mortar in a rage and setting fire to the bits. Who acts: pieces, gold pieces. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Th
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 36

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But, instead of the gold pieces for which they looked, the rice turned into berries with such a horrible smell that they were obliged to run away, after smashing the mortar in a rage and setting fire to the bits.

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**Who acts:** pieces, gold pieces · **What happens:** look, turn, oblige, run away, smash, set · **To what, where:** berries, pieces, mortar, rage, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, gold pieces), 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:pg641:18:36
# text = But, instead of the gold pieces for which they looked, the rice turned into berries with such a horrible smell that they were obliged to run away, after smashing the mortar in a rage and setting fire to the bits.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	conj	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | for the gold pieces | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for which=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the gold pieces |  |  | berries |  | with such horrible smell | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into berry=Trajectory |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **run away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smash** | gerund |  | the mortar |  | a rage |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mortar=Theme in rage=Destination |
| 6 | **set** | gerund |  | fire |  |  |  | to the bits | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |

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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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