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title: Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some sca… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft. Who acts: yellow herb, treasure
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 25

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Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft.

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**Who acts:** yellow herb, treasures · **What happens:** flourish, call, consist, put, treasure · **To what, where:** that, tansy, three roots, cleft, rock · **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 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yellow herb, treasures), 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:pg3454:23:25
# text = Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	tufts	tuft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	14	amod	_	_
14	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	herb	herb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	tansy	tansy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl:agent	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	garlic	garlic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flourish** | participle · passive |  | that |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the yellow herb *not said here* | tansy |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consist** | participle | the treasures of the rock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past · perfect · passive |  | three roots of garlic |  | a cleft |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cleft=Destination |
| 5 | **treasure** |  |  | the rock |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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