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title: And the very key-stones of the arches had for ornaments clusters of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the very key-stones of the arches had for ornaments clusters of diamonds and rubies, and pearls, and other precious stones. Who acts: key 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 53

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And the very key-stones of the arches had for ornaments clusters of diamonds and rubies, and pearls, and other precious stones.

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**Who acts:** key stones · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** other 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: who acts (key stones), 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:pg7439:24:53
# text = And the very key-stones of the arches had for ornaments clusters of diamonds and rubies, and pearls, and other precious stones.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	key	key	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the key stones of the arches | other precious stones |  |  |  | for ornaments clusters of diamonds and rubies and pearls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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:** «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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