---
title: Around it stretches a desolate moor, where no corn can be grown, and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Around it stretches a desolate moor, where no corn can be grown, and the grass is so coarse that no beast grows fat on it. Who acts: sea, grass, beast. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/54/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/) / 54

# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 54

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Around it stretches a desolate moor, where no corn can be grown, and the grass is so coarse that no beast grows fat on it.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** sea, grass, beast · **What happens:** stretch, desolate, grow, be · **To what, where:** desolate moor, corn, fat, sea

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, grass, beast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3454:25:54
# text = Around it stretches a desolate moor, where no corn can be grown, and the grass is so coarse that no beast grows fat on it.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	compound	_	_
6	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present | sea | a desolate moor |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moor=Patient |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | can · passive |  | no corn |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the grass |  |  |  |  | coarse *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | present | no beast | fat |  | sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fat=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/53/)
- next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/55/)
- ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/25/)