--- title: There was a nice little garden attached to the cottage, in which the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There was a nice little garden attached to the cottage, in which they cultivated peas, beans, and cabbages, and the lady was not ashamed to go out at harvest time, and glean in the fields to supply her little son’s wants. Who acts: nice little garden, cottage, lady, little son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nice little garden, cottage, lady, little son), 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:pg540:16:29 # text = There was a nice little garden attached to the cottage, in which they cultivated peas, beans, and cabbages, and the lady was not ashamed to go out at harvest time, and glean in the fields to supply her little son’s wants. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 attached attach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cultivated cultivate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cabbages cabbage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 glean glean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 supply supply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 wants want NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a nice little garden | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **attach** | participle | | a nice little garden *not said here* | | | | to the cottage | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cottage=Co-Patient | | 3 | **cultivate** | past | cottage | peas and beans and cabbages | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Product | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | the lady | | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go out** | to-infinitive | the lady *not said here* | | | | time | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **glean** | infinitive | the lady *not said here* | | | the fields | | | vn learn-14-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **supply** | to-infinitive | the lady *not said here* | lady's little son's wants | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Recipient | | 8 | **want** | | lady's little son | | | | | | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/30/) - ↑ back to [Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/)