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title: And then seeing a spot where the clematis grew less thickly than in… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then seeing a spot where the clematis grew less thickly than in other places, she jumped lightly over. Who acts: clematis. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 31

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And then seeing a spot where the clematis grew less thickly than in other places, she jumped lightly over.

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**Who acts:** clematis · **What happens:** see, grow, jump over · **To what, where:** spot

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (clematis), 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:pg3027:10:31
# text = And then seeing a spot where the clematis grew less thickly than in other places, she jumped lightly over.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	clematis	clematis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | clematis *not said here* | a spot |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the clematis |  |  |  |  | thickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **jump over** | past | clematis |  |  |  |  | lightly, over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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