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title: His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in the Market Place, and as she was always neat and clean and her goods were temptingly spread out she had plenty of customers. Who acts: wife, fruit. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 6

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His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in the Market Place, and as she was always neat and clean and her goods were temptingly spread out she had plenty of customers.

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**Who acts:** wife, fruit · **What happens:** sell, grow, be, spread out, have · **To what, where:** garden, goods, plenty

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (wife, fruit), 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:pg641:26:6
# text = His wife sold the fruit and vegetables they grew in their garden in the Market Place, and as she was always neat and clean and her goods were temptingly spread out she had plenty of customers.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Market	Market	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	temptingly	temptingly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
35	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	customers	customer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | man's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the fruit and vegetables |  |  | fruit's garden |  | in the Market Place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | always, neat *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spread out** | past · passive |  | wife's goods |  |  |  | temptingly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | wife | plenty of customers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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