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title: She did not touch the soup, but she carried the bones to the edge of… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She did not touch the soup, but she carried the bones to the edge of the field and buried them there; and there sprang up on the spot a birch tree—a very lovely birch tree. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 20

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She did not touch the soup, but she carried the bones to the edge of the field and buried them there; and there sprang up on the spot a birch tree—a very lovely birch tree.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** not touch, carry, bury, spring up · **To what, where:** soup, bones, edge, birch tree, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg540:14:20
# text = She did not touch the soup, but she carried the bones to the edge of the field and buried them there; and there sprang up on the spot a birch tree—a very lovely birch tree.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	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 | **not** **touch** | past · do-support | girl | the soup |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soup=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | girl | the bones |  | the edge of the field |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme to edge=Destination |
| 3 | **bury** | past | girl *not said here* | bones *= bone* |  | there |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **spring up** | past | girl *not said here* | a birch tree |  | the spot; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |

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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 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.

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