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title: A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place wh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the Beanstalk stood a fine, strong castle. Who acts: crystal stream, stream, Beanstalk. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 8

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A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the Beanstalk stood a fine, strong castle.

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**Who acts:** crystal stream, stream, Beanstalk · **What happens:** run, get off, stand · **To what, where:** pastures, fine strong castle

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crystal stream, stream, Beanstalk), 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:pg540:16:8
# text = A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the Beanstalk stood a fine, strong castle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | a crystal stream |  |  | the pastures |  | from the place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pasture=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get off** | past · perfect | stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the Beanstalk | a fine strong castle |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |

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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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