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title: Before Petru lay a wood made of copper, with copper trees and copper… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Before Petru lay a wood made of copper, with copper trees and copper leaves, with bushes and flowers of copper also. Who acts: Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 115

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Before Petru lay a wood made of copper, with copper trees and copper leaves, with bushes and flowers of copper also.

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**Who acts:** Petru · **What happens:** lie, make · **To what, where:** wood

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru), 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:pg641:19:115
# text = Before Petru lay a wood made of copper, with copper trees and copper leaves, with bushes and flowers of copper also.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Petru | a wood |  |  |  | with copper trees and copper leaves; with bushes and flowers of copper | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a wood *not said here* |  |  |  | of copper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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