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title: The plain was covered with the strangest trees, there were whole ave… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 96

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The plain was covered with the strangest trees, there were whole avenues where partridges, ready roasted, hung from every branch, or, if you preferred pheasants, quails, turkeys, or rabbits, you had only to turn to the right hand or to the left and you were sure to find them.

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**Who acts:** whole avenues, partridges, you · **What happens:** cover, be, roast, hang, pheasant, turn · **To what, where:** plain, rabbits, branch, right hand

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (whole avenues, partridges, you), 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:pg503:30:96
# text = The plain was covered with the strangest trees, there were whole avenues where partridges, ready roasted, hung from every branch, or, if you preferred pheasants, quails, turkeys, or rabbits, you had only to turn to the right hand or to the left and you were sure to find them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	strangest	strange	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	_
15	partridges	partridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	preferred	preferred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pheasants	pheasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	quails	quail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
55	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the plain |  |  |  | with the strangest trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | whole avenues |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roast** | participle | partridges *not said here* | rabbits |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | participle | partridges *not said here* |  |  | every branch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pheasant** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn** | past | you |  |  | the right hand or the left |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hand=Trajectory |
| 7 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | plain |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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