--- title: They came in their wanderings upon a big tree which lay felled on th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They came in their wanderings upon a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and on the trunk among the long grass they noticed something jumping up and down, but what it was they couldn’t distinguish. Who acts: fagots. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/40/) [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/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/) / 40 # The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 40 They came in their wanderings upon a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and on the trunk among the long grass they noticed something jumping up and down, but what it was they couldn’t distinguish. **Who acts:** fagots · **What happens:** come, fell, notice, jump up, not be, wander · **To what, where:** wanderings, big tree, ground, something, trunk This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fagots), 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:pg503:36:40 # text = They came in their wanderings upon a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and on the trunk among the long grass they noticed something jumping up and down, but what it was they couldn’t distinguish. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 wanderings wandering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 upon upon ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 felled fell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 jumping jump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 up up ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 down down ADV RB _ 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 parataxis _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 distinguish distinguish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | fagots *= fagot* | | | fagots's wanderings | | upon a big tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wandering=Location | | 2 | **fell** | past · passive | | a big tree | | the ground | | | tree rules | | 3 | **notice** | past | fagots *= fagot* | something | | the trunk among the long grass | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 4 | **jump up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | could · past | fagots *= fagot* | | | | | distinguish *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wander** | | fagots *= fagot* | | | | | | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/41/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/)