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title: Everything was quite tiny, but so beautifully and carefully finished… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything was quite tiny, but so beautifully and carefully finished that it might have been the work of an accomplished artist. Who acts: Everything, curiosity. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 37

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Everything was quite tiny, but so beautifully and carefully finished that it might have been the work of an accomplished artist.

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**Who acts:** Everything, curiosity · **What happens:** be, finish, accomplish · **To what, where:** work

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everything, curiosity), 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:pg7277:45:37
# text = Everything was quite tiny, but so beautifully and carefully finished that it might have been the work of an accomplished artist.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautifully, carefully *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | might · perfect | curiosity | the work |  |  |  | of a accomplished artist | tree rules |
| 4 | **accomplish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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