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title: It was very hot, and they thought that they could not find a more co… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was very hot, and they thought that they could not find a more comfortable place than under the branches of a large tree which grew by the bank of a river. Who acts: tribe, fishes, large tree. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 72

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It was very hot, and they thought that they could not find a more comfortable place than under the branches of a large tree which grew by the bank of a river.

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**Who acts:** tribe, fishes, large tree · **What happens:** be, think, not find, grow · **To what, where:** comfortable place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tribe, fishes, large tree), 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:pg3454:17:72
# text = It was very hot, and they thought that they could not find a more comfortable place than under the branches of a large tree which grew by the bank of a river.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tribe |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | fishes *= fish* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | fishes *= fish* | a comfortable place |  |  |  | than the branches of a large tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **grow** | past | a large tree |  |  |  |  | by the bank of a river | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bank=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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