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title: And on the water in front of them was a wide glistening path running… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 127

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And on the water in front of them was a wide glistening path running straight out towards a beautiful thing that rose out of the water and went up into the sky, and was all the colours in the world, blue and red and green, and wonderful to look at.

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**Who acts:** wide glistening path, beautiful thing · **What happens:** glisten, be, run, rise, go up, look · **To what, where:** wide glistening path, water, beautiful thing, sky, colours, world

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wide glistening path, beautiful thing), 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:pg14241:29:127
# text = And on the water in front of them was a wide glistening path running straight out towards a beautiful thing that rose out of the water and went up into the sky, and was all the colours in the world, blue and red and green, and wonderful to look at.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glisten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a wide glistening path |  | the water in front of bones |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | a wide glistening path *not said here* |  |  | a beautiful thing |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards thing=Destination |
| 4 | **rise** | past | a beautiful thing |  |  | the water |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out water=Location |
| 5 | **go up** | past | a beautiful thing *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | all colours |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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