--- title: Then outside the palace were gardens filled with rare flowers and fr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then outside the palace were gardens filled with rare flowers and fruits and singing birds, or if they desired to go further, a golden coach, painted with wreaths of forget-me-nots and lined with blue satin, awaited their orders. Who acts: palace, birds. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/) / 66 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 66 Then outside the palace were gardens filled with rare flowers and fruits and singing birds, or if they desired to go further, a golden coach, painted with wreaths of forget-me-nots and lined with blue satin, awaited their orders. **Who acts:** palace, birds · **What happens:** be, fill, sing, desire, go, paint · **To what, where:** gardens, birds, golden coach, orders 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 (palace, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:7:66 # text = Then outside the palace were gardens filled with rare flowers and fruits and singing birds, or if they desired to go further, a golden coach, painted with wreaths of forget-me-nots and lined with blue satin, awaited their orders. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 2 outside outside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 7 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 15 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 further further ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 wreaths wreath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 nots not NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 satin satin NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 awaited await VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the palace | | | | | outside gardens | tree rules | | 2 | **fill** | participle | | gardens *not said here* | | | | with rare flowers and fruits | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flower=Instrument | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | birds | | | then | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | | 4 | **desire** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | birds *= bird* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* | a golden coach | | | | further *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **paint** | participle | | a golden coach *not said here* | | | | with wreaths of me | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wreath=Theme | | 7 | **line** | participle | | | | | | with blue satin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with satin=Theme | | 8 | **await** | past | birds *= bird* *not said here* | birds's orders | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **order** | | birds *= bird* | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/67/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/)