--- title: They grew in a garden, and he went up to the gate and found it a sla… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They grew in a garden, and he went up to the gate and found it a slab of beautifully worked marble, and that near it there lay sleeping, with his head on a stone, a negro whose face was so black that it made darkness round him. Who acts: trees, tee, that, sleeping. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, tee, that, sleeping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:2:125 # text = They grew in a garden, and he went up to the gate and found it a slab of beautifully worked marble, and that near it there lay sleeping, with his head on a stone, a negro whose face was so black that it made darkness round him. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 slab slab NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 marble marble NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 nsubj _ _ 26 near near ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 29 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 negro negro NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 41 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 49 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 50 round round ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | trees *= tree* | | | a garden | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | | 2 | **go up** | past | tee | | | | | to the gate | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **find** | past | tee *not said here* | gate | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme slab=Attribute | | 4 | **work** | participle | | | | | | beautifully *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lie** | past | that | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | with tee's head on a stone and a negro a negro face's face | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | sleeping | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **make** | past | slab | darkness | | | | round tee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material darkness=Product | 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. **Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/126/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/)