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title: Why, of diamonds and emeralds, and all manner of precious stones. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, of diamonds and emeralds, and all manner of precious stones. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 52

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Why, of diamonds and emeralds, and all manner of precious stones.

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. 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:pg7439:24:52
# text = Why, of diamonds and emeralds, and all manner of precious stones.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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