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title: Gold and precious stones were as common as wood with us, and the sta… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Gold and precious stones were as common as wood with us, and the stables where the horses of the sun were kept were more splendid than the palace of the greatest emperor in the world. Who acts: Gold, stables. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with i
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 139

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Gold and precious stones were as common as wood with us, and the stables where the horses of the sun were kept were more splendid than the palace of the greatest emperor in the world.

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**Who acts:** Gold, stables · **What happens:** be, keep · **To what, where:** horses

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold, stables), 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:pg641:21:139
# text = Gold and precious stones were as common as wood with us, and the stables where the horses of the sun were kept were more splendid than the palace of the greatest emperor in the world.
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | past | Gold and precious stones |  |  |  |  | as wood with us; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past · passive |  | the horses of the sun |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the stables |  |  |  |  | than the palace of the greatest emperor in the world; splendid *property* | tree rules |

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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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