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title: There I grew up surrounded with everything that was beautiful and ra… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 88

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There I grew up surrounded with everything that was beautiful and rare, and learning everything that is ever taught to a princess, but without any companions but a parrot and a little dog, who could both talk; and receiving every day a visit from one of the old fairies, who came mounted upon the dragon.

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**Who acts:** I, little dog · **What happens:** grow up, surround, be, learn, teach, talk · **To what, where:** everything, princess, visit, old fairies

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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 (I, little dog), 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:pg503:24:88
# text = There I grew up surrounded with everything that was beautiful and rare, and learning everything that is ever taught to a princess, but without any companions but a parrot and a little dog, who could both talk; and receiving every day a visit from one of the old fairies, who came mounted upon the dragon.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl:agent	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	both	both	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
44	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
56	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl:relcl	_	_
58	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past | I |  |  | there |  | without any companions but a parrot and a little dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **learn** | gerund | I *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive |  |  | a princess |  | ever |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to princess=Recipient |
| 7 | **talk** | could | a little dog |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **receive** | gerund | I *not said here* | a visit |  |  | day | from one of the old fairies | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from one=Source |
| 9 | **mount** | past · passive |  | the old fairies |  |  |  | upon the dragon | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon dragon=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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