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title: But vast through the plain seemed, it did not take long to cross, an… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But vast through the plain seemed, it did not take long to cross, and very soon the colt entered a sort of shady park in which was standing a single apple-tree, its branches bowed down to the ground with the weight of its fruit. Who acts: it, colt, branches. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by A
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 21

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But vast through the plain seemed, it did not take long to cross, and very soon the colt entered a sort of shady park in which was standing a single apple-tree, its branches bowed down to the ground with the weight of its fruit.

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**Who acts:** it, colt, branches · **What happens:** seem, not take, cross, enter, stand, bow down · **To what, where:** plain, sort, single apple tree, shady park

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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 (it, colt, branches), 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:pg3454:27:21
# text = But vast through the plain seemed, it did not take long to cross, and very soon the colt entered a sort of shady park in which was standing a single apple-tree, its branches bowed down to the ground with the weight of its fruit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	vast	vast	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
40	down	down	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past |  |  |  | the plain |  | vast *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cross** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past | the colt | a sort of shady park |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Destination |
| 5 | **stand** | past · progressive |  | a single apple tree |  | shady park |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in which=Destination |
| 6 | **bow down** | past | plain's branches |  |  |  |  | to the ground; with the weight of plain's fruit; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | shady park |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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