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title: The princess wandered about the field day by day, no other plants or… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess wandered about the field day by day, no other plants or fruits in all her wonderful garden pleased her as much as these roots; but still her eyes were full of discontent. Who acts: princess, eyes. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, with i
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 82

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The princess wandered about the field day by day, no other plants or fruits in all her wonderful garden pleased her as much as these roots; but still her eyes were full of discontent.

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**Who acts:** princess, eyes · **What happens:** wander, be · **To what, where:** other plants, wonderful garden

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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 (princess, eyes), 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:pg3282:31:82
# text = The princess wandered about the field day by day, no other plants or fruits in all her wonderful garden pleased her as much as these roots; but still her eyes were full of discontent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
21	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **wander** | past | the princess | no other plants or fruits |  | princess's wonderful garden | day | goblin *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | princess's eyes |  |  |  | still | of discontent; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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