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title: They often roamed about in the woods gathering berries and no beast… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They often roamed about in the woods gathering berries and no beast offered to hurt them; on the contrary, they came up to them in the most confiding manner; the little hare would eat a cabbage leaf from their hands, the deer grazed beside them, the stag would bound past them merrily, and the birds 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 5

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They often roamed about in the woods gathering berries and no beast offered to hurt them; on the contrary, they came up to them in the most confiding manner; the little hare would eat a cabbage leaf from their hands, the deer grazed beside them, the stag would bound past them merrily, and the birds remained on the branches and sang to them with all their might.

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**Who acts:** roses, woods, little hare, deer, stag · **What happens:** roam, gather, offer, hurt, come up, confide · **To what, where:** berries, beast, roses, contrary, cabbage leaf, hands

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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 (roses, woods, little hare, deer), 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:pg503:36:5
# text = They often roamed about in the woods gathering berries and no beast offered to hurt them; on the contrary, they came up to them in the most confiding manner; the little hare would eat a cabbage leaf from their hands, the deer grazed beside them, the stag would bound past them merrily, and the birds remained on the branches and sang to them with all their might.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	confiding	confide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	amod	_	_
31	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
48	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	bound	bound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
55	past	past	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	_
57	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
62	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl	_	_
63	on	on	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	conj	_	_
68	to	to	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obl	_	_
70	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	73	mark	_	_
71	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	73	det:predet	_	_
72	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	73	nmod:poss	_	_
73	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	67	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | past | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | about the woods; often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Trajectory |
| 2 | **gather** | gerund | the woods *not said here* | berries and no beast |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | participle |  | no beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hurt** | to-infinitive |  | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
| 5 | **come up** | past | roses *= rose* |  | berries *= berry* | the contrary |  | in the confiding manner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **confide** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **eat** | would | the little hare | a cabbage leaf |  | roses's hands |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 8 | **graze** | past | the deer |  |  |  |  | beside roses *= rose* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **bound** | would | the stag |  |  |  |  | past roses *= rose*; merrily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory |
| 10 | **remain** | participle |  | the birds *not said here* |  | the branches |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location |
| 11 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  |  | roses *= rose* |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |

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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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