--- title: When Rosette saw the beautiful garden, full of fruit and flowers, wi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When Rosette saw the beautiful garden, full of fruit and flowers, with green grass and sparkling fountains, she was so astonished that not a word could she say, for she had never in her life seen anything like it before. Who acts: Rosette, word, life. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/) / 50 # The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 50 When Rosette saw the beautiful garden, full of fruit and flowers, with green grass and sparkling fountains, she was so astonished that not a word could she say, for she had never in her life seen anything like it before. **Who acts:** Rosette, word, life · **What happens:** see, sparkle, be, say, have · **To what, where:** beautiful garden, fountains, life, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosette, word, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:11:50 # text = When Rosette saw the beautiful garden, full of fruit and flowers, with green grass and sparkling fountains, she was so astonished that not a word could she say, for she had never in her life seen anything like it before. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Rosette Rosette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 19 fountains fountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ _ 41 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 40 obj _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ _ 44 before before ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Rosette | the beautiful garden | | | | with green grass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus | | 2 | **sparkle** | gerund | Rosette *not said here* | fountains | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Rosette | | | | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | a word | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | past | word | word's life | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | | 6 | **see** | participle | word's life *not said here* | anything | | | | like life; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | 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. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/51/) - ↑ back to [Princess Rosette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/11/)