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title: One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the queen lay buried, and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on it. Who acts: man, queen, briar. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 25

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One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the queen lay buried, and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on it.

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**Who acts:** man, queen, briar · **What happens:** hunt, ride, lie, bury, see, grow · **To what, where:** place, briar

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen, briar), 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:pg3454:38:25
# text = One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the queen lay buried, and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on it.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	past	past	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	briar	briar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · progressive | man *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ride** | past | man |  |  | the place |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bury** | participle | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | past | man | a briar |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer briar=Stimulus |
| 6 | **grow** | gerund | a briar *not said here* |  |  | briar |  | with two blossoms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |

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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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