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title: This he took back to the place where they should have been feeding,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This he took back to the place where they should have been feeding, for here he had noticed a high rock, with a patch of green grass in the middle and two or three thick bushes growing on the edge. Who acts: This, bells, son, two thick bushes. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 87

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This he took back to the place where they should have been feeding, for here he had noticed a high rock, with a patch of green grass in the middle and two or three thick bushes growing on the edge.

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**Who acts:** This, bells, son, two thick bushes · **What happens:** take back, feed, notice, grow · **To what, where:** high rock, edge

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, bells, son, two thick bushes), 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:pg2435:26:87
# text = This he took back to the place where they should have been feeding, for here he had noticed a high rock, with a patch of green grass in the middle and two or three thick bushes growing on the edge.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	conj	_	_
37	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
39	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take back** | past | This |  |  |  |  | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 2 | **feed** | should · perfect · progressive | bells *= bell* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **notice** | past · perfect | son | a high rock |  |  |  | with a patch of green grass in the middle and two thick bushes | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | two thick bushes *not said here* |  |  | the edge |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on edge=Location |

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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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