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title: As they approached the stream they saw something which looked like a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they approached the stream they saw something which looked like an enormous grasshopper springing toward the water as if it were going to jump in. Who acts: roses, enormous grasshopper, stream. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree a
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 58

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As they approached the stream they saw something which looked like an enormous grasshopper springing toward the water as if it were going to jump in.

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**Who acts:** roses, enormous grasshopper, stream · **What happens:** approach, see, look, spring, go, jump in · **To what, where:** stream, something, water

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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, enormous grasshopper, stream), 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:pg503:36:58
# text = As they approached the stream they saw something which looked like an enormous grasshopper springing toward the water as if it were going to jump in.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | roses *= rose* | the stream |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | roses *= rose* | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like a enormous grasshopper | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spring** | gerund | a enormous grasshopper *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward water=Trajectory |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **jump in** | to-infinitive | stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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