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title: They did not get on very fast at this rate, but presently they reach… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They did not get on very fast at this rate, but presently they reached a flat place that in time of flood was full of water, but was now, in the height of summer, only a set of pools, each surrounded with a fringe of plants, with bulrushes standing in the inside of all. Who acts: parents, flat place
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 78

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They did not get on very fast at this rate, but presently they reached a flat place that in time of flood was full of water, but was now, in the height of summer, only a set of pools, each surrounded with a fringe of plants, with bulrushes standing in the inside of all.

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**Who acts:** parents, flat place, fringe, bulrushes · **What happens:** not get on, reach, be, surround, stand · **To what, where:** flat place, each, inside

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, flat place, fringe, bulrushes), 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:pg3282:8:78
# text = They did not get on very fast at this rate, but presently they reached a flat place that in time of flood was full of water, but was now, in the height of summer, only a set of pools, each surrounded with a fringe of plants, with bulrushes standing in the inside of all.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	fringe	fringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:agent	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl:agent	_	_
55	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	acl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get on** | past · do-support | parents *= parent* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reach** | past | parents *= parent* | a flat place |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a flat place |  |  |  | time | of water; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **surround** | participle · passive | a fringe of plants | each |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund | bulrushes *not said here* |  |  | the inside of all |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in inside=Location |

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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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