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title: and scarcely had she uttered the words, when there stood a little ta… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: and scarcely had she uttered the words, when there stood a little table before her covered with a white cloth, on which were arranged a plate, with a knife and fork and a silver spoon, and the most beautiful dishes, which were smoking hot, as if they had just come out of the kitchen. Who acts: goat,
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 21

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and scarcely had she uttered the words, when there stood a little table before her covered with a white cloth, on which were arranged a plate, with a knife and fork and a silver spoon, and the most beautiful dishes, which were smoking hot, as if they had just come out of the kitchen.

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**Who acts:** goat, beautiful dishes, words · **What happens:** utter, stand, cover, arrange, smoke, come out · **To what, where:** words, little table, plate

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, beautiful dishes, words), 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:pg7277:40:21
# text = and scarcely had she uttered the words, when there stood a little table before her covered with a white cloth, on which were arranged a plate, with a knife and fork and a silver spoon, and the most beautiful dishes, which were smoking hot, as if they had just come out of the kitchen.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	43	advmod	_	_
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
49	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
52	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	just	just	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
57	out	out	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | goat | the words |  |  |  | the beautiful dishes *obl*; scarcely *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | past | goat *not said here* | a little table |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cover** | participle | goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a white cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme |
| 4 | **arrange** | past · passive | goat *not said here* | a plate |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: plate=Theme on which=Destination |
| 5 | **smoke** | past · progressive | the beautiful dishes |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | of the kitchen; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 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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