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title: At last they reached a vast meadow, gay with all sorts of flowers; a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they reached a vast meadow, gay with all sorts of flowers; a deep river surrounded it, and many little brooks murmured softly under the shady trees, where it was always cool and fresh. Who acts: last, many little brooks, brook. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow D
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 97

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At last they reached a vast meadow, gay with all sorts of flowers; a deep river surrounded it, and many little brooks murmured softly under the shady trees, where it was always cool and fresh.

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**Who acts:** last, many little brooks, brook · **What happens:** reach, surround, murmur, be, sort · **To what, where:** vast meadow, deep river, shady trees, flowers

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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 (last, many little brooks, brook), 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:pg503:6:97
# text = At last they reached a vast meadow, gay with all sorts of flowers; a deep river surrounded it, and many little brooks murmured softly under the shady trees, where it was always cool and fresh.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | last | a vast meadow |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | a deep river |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | many little brooks |  |  | the shady trees |  | softly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | brook |  |  |  |  | always, cool *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | brook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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