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title: The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle were carefully placed in th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle were carefully placed in the treasury, and were always held in the very highest honour. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 46

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The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle were carefully placed in the treasury, and were always held in the very highest honour.

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**What happens:** place, hold · **To what, where:** spindle, treasury, highest honour

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:44:46
# text = The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle were carefully placed in the treasury, and were always held in the very highest honour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spindle	spindle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | the spindle and the shuttle and the needle |  | the treasury |  | carefully *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in treasury=Destination |
| 2 | **hold** | past · passive |  |  |  | the highest honour |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in honour=Location |

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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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