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title: On their way home, as they were again passing the heath, they surpri… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On their way home, as they were again passing the heath, they surprised the dwarf pouring out his precious stones on an open space, for he had thought no one would pass by at so late an hour. Who acts: girls, dwarf, man, one. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-re
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 82

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On their way home, as they were again passing the heath, they surprised the dwarf pouring out his precious stones on an open space, for he had thought no one would pass by at so late an hour.

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**Who acts:** girls, dwarf, man, one · **What happens:** pass, surprise, pour out, think, pass by · **To what, where:** heath, dwarf, way, precious stones, open space · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girls, dwarf, man, one), 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:pg503:36:82
# text = On their way home, as they were again passing the heath, they surprised the dwarf pouring out his precious stones on an open space, for he had thought no one would pass by at so late an hour.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · progressive | girls *= girl* | the heath |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heath=Trajectory |
| 2 | **surprise** | past | girls *= girl* | the dwarf |  | girls's way |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dwarf=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pour out** | gerund | the dwarf *not said here* | man's precious stones |  | a open space |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **pass by** | would | no one |  |  |  | hour |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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