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title: At last the forest was left behind, and they came out on a wide plai… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the forest was left behind, and they came out on a wide plain where the air blew fresh and strong. Who acts: things, air. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 17

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At last the forest was left behind, and they came out on a wide plain where the air blew fresh and strong.

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**Who acts:** things, air · **What happens:** leave behind, come out, blow · **To what, where:** last forest, wide plain

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, air), 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:pg3454:27:17
# text = At last the forest was left behind, and they came out on a wide plain where the air blew fresh and strong.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave behind** | past · passive |  |  |  | the last forest |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: at forest=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | things *= thing* |  |  | a wide plain |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **blow** | past | the air |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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