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title: Daisies and forget-me-nots fringed its brink, while tall hedges of r… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Daisies and forget-me-nots fringed its brink, while tall hedges of roses and jasmine ringed it round, making the sweetest and daintiest bower imaginable. Who acts: Daisies, tall hedges. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 13

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Daisies and forget-me-nots fringed its brink, while tall hedges of roses and jasmine ringed it round, making the sweetest and daintiest bower imaginable.

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**Who acts:** Daisies, tall hedges · **What happens:** forget, fringe, ring, make · **To what, where:** brink, breeze

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daisies, tall hedges), 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:pg3282:31:13
# text = Daisies and forget-me-nots fringed its brink, while tall hedges of roses and jasmine ringed it round, making the sweetest and daintiest bower imaginable.
1	Daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nots	not	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	ringed	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	daintiest	dainty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	conj	_	_
28	bower	bow	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | infinitive | Daisies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fringe** | past | Daisies | breeze's brink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ring** | past | tall hedges of roses and jasmine | breeze |  |  |  | round *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | tall hedges of roses and jasmine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 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.

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