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title: In the middle of the forest was a wide open space surrounded by grea… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the forest was a wide open space surrounded by great cedar trees, and this was supposed to be the fairy’s favourite spot. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 63

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In the middle of the forest was a wide open space surrounded by great cedar trees, and this was supposed to be the fairy’s favourite spot.

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**What happens:** be, surround, suppose · **To what, where:** wide open space, middle, this, favourite spot

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg2435:35:63
# text = In the middle of the forest was a wide open space surrounded by great cedar trees, and this was supposed to be the fairy’s favourite spot.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	cedar	cedar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a wide open space |  | the middle of the forest |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | a wide open space *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suppose** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the fairy's favourite spot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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