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title: And bright flowers on slender stem Gaze up at her as she passes Brus… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And bright flowers on slender stem Gaze up at her as she passes Brushing lightly through the grasses. Who acts: bright flowers, 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 11

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And bright flowers on slender stem Gaze up at her as she passes Brushing lightly through the grasses.

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**Who acts:** bright flowers, Princess · **What happens:** gaze up, pass, brush · **To what, where:** grasses

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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 (bright flowers, 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:pg503:6:11
# text = And bright flowers on slender stem Gaze up at her as she passes Brushing lightly through the grasses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	Brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze up** | infinitive | bright flowers on slender stem |  |  |  |  | at Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | present | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **brush** | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  | the grasses |  | lightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through grass=Destination |

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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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