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title: On one of the great moors over in Jutland, where trees won’t grow be… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On one of the great moors over in Jutland, where trees won’t grow because the soil is so sandy and the wind so strong, there once lived a man and his wife, who had a little house and some sheep, and two sons who helped them to herd them. Who acts: trees, soil, man, two sons. A sentence of «The Crims
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 105

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On one of the great moors over in Jutland, where trees won’t grow because the soil is so sandy and the wind so strong, there once lived a man and his wife, who had a little house and some sheep, and two sons who helped them to herd them.

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**Who acts:** trees, soil, man, two sons · **What happens:** not grow, be, live, have, help, herd · **To what, where:** man, little house, trees

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, soil, man, two sons), 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:pg2435:29:105
# text = On one of the great moors over in Jutland, where trees won’t grow because the soil is so sandy and the wind so strong, there once lived a man and his wife, who had a little house and some sheep, and two sons who helped them to herd them.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
29	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	advmod	_	_
30	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	herd	herd	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | future | trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the soil |  |  |  |  | sandy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past |  | a man and man's wife |  | there |  | on one of the great moors over Jutland; two sons *obl*; once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | a man and man's wife | a little house and some sheep |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 5 | **help** | past | two sons | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **herd** | to-infinitive | trees *= tree* *not said here* | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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