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title: The wood had been on fire once, and now raspberry bushes had grown u… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wood had been on fire once, and now raspberry bushes had grown up, and there were raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes as far as the eye could see. Who acts: wood, raspberry bushes, eye. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 132

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The wood had been on fire once, and now raspberry bushes had grown up, and there were raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes as far as the eye could see.

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**Who acts:** wood, raspberry bushes, eye · **What happens:** be, grow up, see · **To what, where:** fire

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, raspberry bushes, eye), 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:pg3454:24:132
# text = The wood had been on fire once, and now raspberry bushes had grown up, and there were raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes as far as the eye could see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
20	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	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 | **is** | past · perfect | the wood |  |  | fire |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | past · perfect | raspberry bushes |  |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | raspberry bushes and raspberry bushes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | could | the eye |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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