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title: And this wonderful stone contained not only food, but clothes and ev… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And this wonderful stone contained not only food, but clothes and everything you could possibly want in the house. Who acts: wonderful stone, clothes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 119

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And this wonderful stone contained not only food, but clothes and everything you could possibly want in the house.

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**Who acts:** wonderful stone, clothes · **What happens:** contain, want · **To what, where:** food, house

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful stone, clothes), 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:pg641:2:119
# text = And this wonderful stone contained not only food, but clothes and everything you could possibly want in the house.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past | this wonderful stone | food |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | could | clothes  you |  |  | the house |  | possibly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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