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title: Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in the morning wind, behind the hedge is a road, behind the road is a wood, and behind the wood the wide world. Who acts: hedge, tall aspens. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, with its d
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 106

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Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in the morning wind, behind the hedge is a road, behind the road is a wood, and behind the wood the wide world.

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**Who acts:** hedge, tall aspens · **What happens:** be, rustle · **To what, where:** garden, morning wind, road, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hedge, tall aspens), 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:pg3454:7:106
# text = Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in the morning wind, behind the hedge is a road, behind the road is a wood, and behind the wood the wide world.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	aspens	aspen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rustle	rustle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a hedge with tall aspens |  |  | the garden; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind garden=Location |
| 2 | **rustle** | present | tall aspens |  |  | the morning wind |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present | the hedge |  |  | a road |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a wood |  | the road |  |  | tree rules |

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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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