--- title: Some are from Portugal, where the golden fruits grow in the Garden o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Some are from Portugal, where the golden fruits grow in the Garden of the Hesperides; and some are from wild Wales, and were told at Arthur’s Court; and others come from the firesides of the kinsmen of the Welsh, the Bretons. Who acts: Some, Portugal, others. 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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 (Some, Portugal, others), 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:pg3454:1:52 # text = Some are from Portugal, where the golden fruits grow in the Garden of the Hesperides; and some are from wild Wales, and were told at Arthur’s Court; and others come from the firesides of the kinsmen of the Welsh, the Bretons. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Garden Garden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Hesperides Hesperid PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 Arthur Arthur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 firesides fireside NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 kinsmen kinsman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Welsh Welsh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Bretons Breton PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Some | | | Portugal | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | Portugal | | | the Garden of the Hesperides | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | some | | | wild Wales | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | wild Wales *not said here* | | Arthur's Court | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **come** | present | others | | | the firesides of the kinsmen of the Welsh and the Bretons | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fireside=Initial\_Location | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/1/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/1/53/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/1/)