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title: So they went there again, and there the grass was, standing as high… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went there again, and there the grass was, standing as high and as thick as it had been before, but that did not make them any kinder to Cinderlad. Who acts: sons, grass, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 36

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So they went there again, and there the grass was, standing as high and as thick as it had been before, but that did not make them any kinder to Cinderlad.

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**Who acts:** sons, grass, that · **What happens:** go, stand, be, not make · **To what, where:** sons

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, grass, that), 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:pg503:48:36
# text = So they went there again, and there the grass was, standing as high and as thick as it had been before, but that did not make them any kinder to Cinderlad.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sons *= son* |  |  | there | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the grass |  |  | there |  | as high | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | grass |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | that | sons *= son* |  |  |  | kind *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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