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title: Thus fostered they grew and flourished marvellously, and promised a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus fostered they grew and flourished marvellously, and promised a goodly crop. Who acts: rivers. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 81

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Thus fostered they grew and flourished marvellously, and promised a goodly crop.

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**Who acts:** rivers · **What happens:** foster, grow, flourish, promise · **To what, where:** goodly crop

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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 (rivers), 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:pg3282:31:81
# text = Thus fostered they grew and flourished marvellously, and promised a goodly crop.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fostered	foster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	marvellously	marvellously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foster** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | rivers *= river* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flourish** | past | rivers *= river* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | marvellously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past |  | a goodly crop |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent crop=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 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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