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title: On the other side of the hedge stretched a great field of maize as f… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other side of the hedge stretched a great field of maize as far as the eye could reach, and the yellow ears swayed to and fro in the gentle breeze like a rippling sea of gold. Who acts: eye, yellow ears. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 66

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On the other side of the hedge stretched a great field of maize as far as the eye could reach, and the yellow ears swayed to and fro in the gentle breeze like a rippling sea of gold.

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**Who acts:** eye, yellow ears · **What happens:** stretch, reach, sway, fro, ripple · **To what, where:** great field, other side, gentle breeze

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, yellow ears), 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:pg2435:4:66
# text = On the other side of the hedge stretched a great field of maize as far as the eye could reach, and the yellow ears swayed to and fro in the gentle breeze like a rippling sea of gold.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	swayed	sway	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	rippling	ripple	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past |  | a great field of maize |  | the other side of the hedge |  | far *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | could | the eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sway** | past | the yellow ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fro** | infinitive | the yellow ears *not said here* |  |  | the gentle breeze like a rippling sea of gold |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ripple** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «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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