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title: Here and there are scattered groves of fir trees, and small pebbles… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there are scattered groves of fir trees, and small pebbles are so thick on the ground that you might almost take it for a beach. Who acts: small pebbles, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 55

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Here and there are scattered groves of fir trees, and small pebbles are so thick on the ground that you might almost take it for a beach.

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**Who acts:** small pebbles, you · **What happens:** scatter, be, take · **To what, where:** groves, ground

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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 (small pebbles, you), 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:pg3454:25:55
# text = Here and there are scattered groves of fir trees, and small pebbles are so thick on the ground that you might almost take it for a beach.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	groves	grove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | present · passive |  | groves of fir trees |  | here; there |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: grove=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | small pebbles |  |  | the ground |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | might | you | the ground |  |  |  | for a beach; almost *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme it=Destination |

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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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