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title: Scarce had he advanced toward the wood when all the great trees, the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarce had he advanced toward the wood when all the great trees, the bushes, and brambles gave way of themselves to let him pass through; he walked up to the castle which he saw at the end of a large avenue which he went into; and what a little surprised him was that he saw none of his people could 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 53

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Scarce had he advanced toward the wood when all the great trees, the bushes, and brambles gave way of themselves to let him pass through; he walked up to the castle which he saw at the end of a large avenue which he went into; and what a little surprised him was that he saw none of his people could follow him, because the trees closed again as soon as he had passed through them.

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**Who acts:** Scarce, brambles, large avenue, none · **What happens:** advance, give, let, pass through, walk up, see · **To what, where:** great trees, wood, way, Scarce, castle, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarce, brambles, large avenue, none), 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:pg503:10:53
# text = Scarce had he advanced toward the wood when all the great trees, the bushes, and brambles gave way of themselves to let him pass through; he walked up to the castle which he saw at the end of a large avenue which he went into; and what a little surprised him was that he saw none of his people could follow him, because the trees closed again as soon as he had passed through them.
1	Scarce	Scarce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	brambles	bramble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	avenue	avenue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	nsubj	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
56	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	ccomp	_	_
57	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	ccomp	_	_
60	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	65	nsubj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nmod	_	_
64	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	ccomp	_	_
66	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
68	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	nsubj:pass	_	_
71	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	65	parataxis	_	_
72	again	again	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
73	as	as	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
74	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	71	advmod	_	_
75	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	78	mark	_	_
76	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	_
77	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	78	aux	_	_
78	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	74	advcl	_	_
79	through	through	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | past · perfect | Scarce | all great trees and the bushes |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | brambles | way of brambles |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | brambles *not said here* | Scarce |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass through** | infinitive | Scarce *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **walk up** | past | Scarce |  |  |  |  | to the castle *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result |
| 6 | **see** | past | Scarce | the castle |  |  | at the end of a large avenue |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go** | past | a large avenue |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **be** | past | Scarce *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **see** | past | Scarce |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **follow** | could | none | Scarce |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 11 | **close** | participle · passive |  | the trees |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 12 | **pass** | past · perfect | Scarce |  |  |  |  | through brambles *= bramble* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through they=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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