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title: This path had a hedge of roses on each side of it, and the merchant… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This path had a hedge of roses on each side of it, and the merchant thought he had never seen or smelt such exquisite flowers. Who acts: path, merchant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 49

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This path had a hedge of roses on each side of it, and the merchant thought he had never seen or smelt such exquisite flowers.

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**Who acts:** path, merchant · **What happens:** have, think, not see, smelt · **To what, where:** hedge, such exquisite flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, merchant), 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:pg503:14:49
# text = This path had a hedge of roses on each side of it, and the merchant thought he had never seen or smelt such exquisite flowers.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | this path | a hedge of roses on each side of side |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **smelt** | participle | merchant *not said here* | such exquisite flowers |  |  |  |  | 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 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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