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title: And when they looked round about them they became aware that they ha… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they looked round about them they became aware that they had slept quite close to a precipice, over which they would certainly have fallen had they gone on a few steps further in the darkness. Who acts: roses. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 9

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And when they looked round about them they became aware that they had slept quite close to a precipice, over which they would certainly have fallen had they gone on a few steps further in the darkness.

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**Who acts:** roses · **What happens:** look round, become, sleep, fall, go

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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), 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:pg503:36:9
# text = And when they looked round about them they became aware that they had slept quite close to a precipice, over which they would certainly have fallen had they gone on a few steps further in the darkness.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	further	further	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look round** | past | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | about woods *= wood*; round *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | aware *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sleep** | past · perfect | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | would · perfect | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over which=Location |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | roses *= rose* |  |  |  |  | on a few steps in the darkness | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on step=Location |

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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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