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title: So she and Turritella began to search every corner of the little roo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she and Turritella began to search every corner of the little room, and when they came to the straw mattress out fell such a quantity of pearls, diamonds, rubies, opals, emeralds, and sapphires, that they were amazed, and could not tell what to think. Who acts: Queen, intrigues. A sentence of «Th
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 110

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So she and Turritella began to search every corner of the little room, and when they came to the straw mattress out fell such a quantity of pearls, diamonds, rubies, opals, emeralds, and sapphires, that they were amazed, and could not tell what to think.

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**Who acts:** Queen, intrigues · **What happens:** begin, search, come out, fall, not tell, think · **To what, where:** corner, quantity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Queen, intrigues), 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:pg7277:3:110
# text = So she and Turritella began to search every corner of the little room, and when they came to the straw mattress out fell such a quantity of pearls, diamonds, rubies, opals, emeralds, and sapphires, that they were amazed, and could not tell what to think.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	mattress	mattress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	opals	opal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **search** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | every corner of the little room |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Location |
| 3 | **come out** | past | intrigues *= intrigue* |  |  |  |  | to the straw mattress | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past |  | such quantity of pearls and diamonds and rubies and opals and emeralds |  |  |  | sapphires *obl* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient quantity=Result |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

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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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