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title: All the blossoms then are found Downward fluttering to the ground, H… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the blossoms then are found Downward fluttering to the ground, Hoping she may tread on them. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 10

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All the blossoms then are found Downward fluttering to the ground, Hoping she may tread on them.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** find, flutter, hope, tread · **To what, where:** blossoms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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:pg503:6:10
# text = All the blossoms then are found Downward fluttering to the ground, Hoping she may tread on them.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	Downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | all blossoms *not said here* |  |  | then | downward *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 2 | **flutter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **tread** | may | Princess |  |  |  |  | on blossoms *= blossom* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |

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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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