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title: Down went all the flat field, till there was a quarry between them a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Down went all the flat field, till there was a quarry between them a quarter of a mile deep, and the bottom filled with black water; and before the giants could get round it, the prince and princesses were inside the kingdom of the great magician, where the high thorny hedge opened of itself to ever
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 26

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Down went all the flat field, till there was a quarry between them a quarter of a mile deep, and the bottom filled with black water; and before the giants could get round it, the prince and princesses were inside the kingdom of the great magician, where the high thorny hedge opened of itself to everyone that he chose to let in.

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**Who acts:** quarry, prince, high thorny hedge · **What happens:** go, be, fill, get, open, choose · **To what, where:** flat field, bottom, quarry, kingdom, everyone

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quarry, prince, high thorny hedge), 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:pg3454:11:26
# text = Down went all the flat field, till there was a quarry between them a quarter of a mile deep, and the bottom filled with black water; and before the giants could get round it, the prince and princesses were inside the kingdom of the great magician, where the high thorny hedge opened of itself to everyone that he chose to let in.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
36	round	round	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
44	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	57	advmod	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
54	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	thorny	thorny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	57	obl	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	57	obl	_	_
62	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	acl:relcl	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	RP	_	66	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  | all flat field |  |  |  | down *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | a quarry between horses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | the bottom *not said here* |  |  |  | with black water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
| 4 | **get** | could |  |  |  | quarry | before the giants |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round it=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | the prince and princesses |  |  | the kingdom |  | of the great magician | tree rules |
| 6 | **open** | past | the high thorny hedge |  | everyone |  |  | of quarry | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to everyone=Recipient |
| 7 | **choose** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **let in** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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 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.

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