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title: The old mother lived for many years peacefully with her children; an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old mother lived for many years peacefully with her children; and she carried the two rose trees with her, and they stood in front of her window, and every year they bore the finest red and white roses. Who acts: old mother, mother, two, trees. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 99

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The old mother lived for many years peacefully with her children; and she carried the two rose trees with her, and they stood in front of her window, and every year they bore the finest red and white roses.

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**Who acts:** old mother, mother, two, trees · **What happens:** live, carry, rise, stand, bear · **To what, where:** trees, front, finest red roses

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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 (old mother, mother, two, trees), 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:pg503:36:99
# text = The old mother lived for many years peacefully with her children; and she carried the two rose trees with her, and they stood in front of her window, and every year they bore the finest red and white roses.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
38	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	amod	_	_
39	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
42	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the old mother |  |  |  | year | with mother's children | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location |
| 2 | **carry** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | past | the two | trees |  |  |  | with mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | trees *= tree* |  |  | front of mother's window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 5 | **bear** | past | trees *= tree* | the finest red roses |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient |

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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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