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title: Then there instantly appeared on the laurel a pretty white flower, w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there instantly appeared on the laurel a pretty white flower, which Michael gathered and stuck into his button-hole. Who acts: Michael. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 50

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Then there instantly appeared on the laurel a pretty white flower, which Michael gathered and stuck into his button-hole.

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**Who acts:** Michael · **What happens:** appear, gather, stick · **To what, where:** pretty white flower, laurel, button hole

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), 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:pg540:2:50
# text = Then there instantly appeared on the laurel a pretty white flower, which Michael gathered and stuck into his button-hole.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past |  | a pretty white flower |  | the laurel; there | then | instantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on laurel=Location |
| 2 | **gather** | past | Michael | a pretty white flower |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **stick** | past |  |  |  | Michael's button hole |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination |

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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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