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title: It was a heart cut out of one huge ruby, and was surrounded by sever… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a heart cut out of one huge ruby, and was surrounded by several diamond arrows, and pierced by one. Who acts: honour, heart, several diamond arrows. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 55

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It was a heart cut out of one huge ruby, and was surrounded by several diamond arrows, and pierced by one.

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**Who acts:** honour, heart, several diamond arrows · **What happens:** be, cut out, surround, pierce · **To what, where:** heart, one huge ruby

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (honour, heart, several diamond arrows), 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:pg7277:2:55
# text = It was a heart cut out of one huge ruby, and was surrounded by several diamond arrows, and pierced by one.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | honour | a heart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut out** | participle | a heart *not said here* | one huge ruby |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ruby=Eventuality |
| 3 | **surround** | past · passive | several diamond arrows | a heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pierce** | participle | honour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by one | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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