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title: Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high above his cap, and he picked seventeen large shells, the longest and straightest he could find. Who acts: Little Lasse, pea stalks, Lasse. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its d
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 36

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Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high above his cap, and he picked seventeen large shells, the longest and straightest he could find.

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**Who acts:** Little Lasse, pea stalks, Lasse · **What happens:** creep, rise, pick, find · **To what, where:** pea bed, cap, seventeen large shells

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Lasse, pea stalks, Lasse), 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:pg3454:14:36
# text = Little Lasse crept into the pea bed where the pea stalks rose high above his cap, and he picked seventeen large shells, the longest and straightest he could find.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	straightest	straight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	advcl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | Little Lasse |  |  | the pea bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the pea stalks |  |  | Lasse's cap |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above cap=Location |
| 3 | **pick** | past | Lasse | seventeen large shells |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | could | Lasse |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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