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title: Everything in the kitchen was of the best and most beautiful kind, a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything in the kitchen was of the best and most beautiful kind, and swarms of cooks and scullions were busy preparing dishes. Who acts: Everything, swarms. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 99

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Everything in the kitchen was of the best and most beautiful kind, and swarms of cooks and scullions were busy preparing dishes.

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**Who acts:** Everything, swarms · **What happens:** be, prepare · **To what, where:** dishes

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, swarms), 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:pg641:27:99
# text = Everything in the kitchen was of the best and most beautiful kind, and swarms of cooks and scullions were busy preparing dishes.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	scullions	scullion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
22	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
23	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | of the best beautiful kind | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | swarms of cooks and scullions |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund | swarms of cooks and scullions *not said here* | dishes |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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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