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title: For company she had all the birds in the forest, who came and talked… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For company she had all the birds in the forest, who came and talked to her, and for playthings the strange flowers which they brought her from far, and the butterflies which danced with her. Who acts: Wildrose, forest, flowers, butterflies. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 22

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For company she had all the birds in the forest, who came and talked to her, and for playthings the strange flowers which they brought her from far, and the butterflies which danced with her.

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**Who acts:** Wildrose, forest, flowers, butterflies · **What happens:** have, come, talk, bring, dance · **To what, where:** birds, forest, Wildrose, strange flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wildrose, forest, flowers, butterflies), 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:pg2435:10:22
# text = For company she had all the birds in the forest, who came and talked to her, and for playthings the strange flowers which they brought her from far, and the butterflies which danced with her.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Wildrose | all birds |  | the forest |  | for company | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the forest |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | past | the forest *not said here* |  | Wildrose |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past | flowers *= flower* | the strange flowers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument which=Theme she=Destination |
| 5 | **dance** | past | the butterflies |  |  |  |  | with Wildrose | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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