--- title: As it was quite the nicest time of the year when Miranda arrived in… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As it was quite the nicest time of the year when Miranda arrived in this delightful land the only palace she saw was a long row of orange trees, jasmines, honeysuckles, and musk-roses, and their interlacing branches made the prettiest rooms possible, which were hung with gold and silver gauze, and h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/) / 1 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 1 As it was quite the nicest time of the year when Miranda arrived in this delightful land the only palace she saw was a long row of orange trees, jasmines, honeysuckles, and musk-roses, and their interlacing branches made the prettiest rooms possible, which were hung with gold and silver gauze, and had great mirrors and candlesticks, and most beautiful pictures. **Who acts:** it, Miranda, only palace, interlacing branches · **What happens:** be, arrive, see, interlace, make, hang · **To what, where:** nicest time, musk roses, delightful land, only palace, long row, prettiest rooms This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (it, Miranda, only palace, interlacing branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:31:1 # text = As it was quite the nicest time of the year when Miranda arrived in this delightful land the only palace she saw was a long row of orange trees, jasmines, honeysuckles, and musk-roses, and their interlacing branches made the prettiest rooms possible, which were hung with gold and silver gauze, and had great mirrors and candlesticks, and most beautiful pictures. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 7 det:predet _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 nicest nice ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 Miranda Miranda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 16 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 jasmines jasmine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 honeysuckles honeysuckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 musk musk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 interlacing interlace VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 amod _ _ 43 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 44 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 prettiest pretty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 47 amod _ _ 47 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 48 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 conj _ _ 53 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 56 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ _ 57 gauze gauze NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 61 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obj _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 candlesticks candlestick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 67 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 68 advmod _ _ 68 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | it | quite nicest time | | | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **arrive** | past | Miranda | musk roses | | this delightful land | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | Miranda | the only palace *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | the only palace | a long row | | | | of orange trees and jasmines and honeysuckles | tree rules | | 5 | **interlace** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **make** | past | roses's interlacing branches | the prettiest rooms | | | | possible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product | | 7 | **hang** | past · passive | | | | | | with gold and silver gauze | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument | | 8 | **have** | past | | great mirrors and candlesticks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/30/98/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/2/) - ↑ back to [The Wonderful Sheep, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/31/)