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title: Presently in his course he came to a great field of castor-oil plant… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently in his course he came to a great field of castor-oil plants, ten or twelve feet high, big and bushy, but quite green and soft. Who acts: Moti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 24

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Presently in his course he came to a great field of castor-oil plants, ten or twelve feet high, big and bushy, but quite green and soft.

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**Who acts:** Moti · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** course

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti), 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:pg3454:16:24
# text = Presently in his course he came to a great field of castor-oil plants, ten or twelve feet high, big and bushy, but quite green and soft.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	castor	castor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Moti |  |  | Moti's course |  | to a great field of oil plants and ten feet; presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial\_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 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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