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title: She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very r… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very rare birds in them. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 5

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She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very rare birds in them.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** seven thousand

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg7277:41:5
# text = She had quite seven thousand of such cages in the castle with very rare birds in them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woman | seven thousand of such cages in the castle with rare birds in birds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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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