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title: And by the banks of that river, there he found the three Terrible Wo… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And by the banks of that river, there he found the three Terrible Women all asleep beneath a poplar tree, and the dead poplar leaves lay all about them. Who acts: boy, dead poplar leaves. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 80

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And by the banks of that river, there he found the three Terrible Women all asleep beneath a poplar tree, and the dead poplar leaves lay all about them.

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**Who acts:** boy, dead poplar leaves · **What happens:** find, lay · **To what, where:** three Terrible Women

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, dead poplar leaves), 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:pg503:27:80
# text = And by the banks of that river, there he found the three Terrible Women all asleep beneath a poplar tree, and the dead poplar leaves lay all about them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	poplar	poplar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	poplar	poplar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | boy | the three Terrible Women |  | there |  | by the banks of that river | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the dead poplar leaves |  |  |  |  | about rivers *= river*; all *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about they=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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