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title: This time she was expecting him, the path was strewn with flowers, a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time she was expecting him, the path was strewn with flowers, and a thousand braziers were burning scented woods which perfumed the air. Who acts: princess, path, thousand braziers, scented woods. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 36

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This time she was expecting him, the path was strewn with flowers, and a thousand braziers were burning scented woods which perfumed the air.

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**Who acts:** princess, path, thousand braziers, scented woods · **What happens:** expect, be, burn, scent, perfume · **To what, where:** successor, scented woods, air

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, path, thousand braziers, scented woods), 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:pg503:24:36
# text = This time she was expecting him, the path was strewn with flowers, and a thousand braziers were burning scented woods which perfumed the air.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	braziers	brazier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
21	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past · progressive | princess | successor |  |  | time |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the path |  |  |  |  | with flowers; strewn *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | past · progressive | a thousand braziers | scented woods |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 4 | **scent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **perfume** | past | scented woods | the air |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Destination |

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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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