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title: They did go, and this time too the grass was standing, looking as fi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They did go, and this time too the grass was standing, looking as fine and as thick as ever. Who acts: others, grass. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 44

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They did go, and this time too the grass was standing, looking as fine and as thick as ever.

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**Who acts:** others, grass · **What happens:** go, stand, look · **To what, where:** time

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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 (others, grass), 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:pg503:48:44
# text = They did go, and this time too the grass was standing, looking as fine and as thick as ever.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | others *= other* |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the grass | this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as fine | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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