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title: They crossed again the wood with the diamond-spangled leaves, the wo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They crossed again the wood with the diamond-spangled leaves, the wood with gold-sprinkled leaves, and the wood whose leaves glittered with drops of silver, and as a proof of what he had seen, the boy broke a small branch from a tree in the last wood. Who acts: princesses, Gazer, boy. A sentence of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 95

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They crossed again the wood with the diamond-spangled leaves, the wood with gold-sprinkled leaves, and the wood whose leaves glittered with drops of silver, and as a proof of what he had seen, the boy broke a small branch from a tree in the last wood.

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**Who acts:** princesses, Gazer, boy · **What happens:** cross, spangle, sprinkle, glitter, see, break · **To what, where:** wood, small branch

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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 (princesses, Gazer, boy), 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:pg540:2:95
# text = They crossed again the wood with the diamond-spangled leaves, the wood with gold-sprinkled leaves, and the wood whose leaves glittered with drops of silver, and as a proof of what he had seen, the boy broke a small branch from a tree in the last wood.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	spangled	spangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | princesses *= princess* | the wood |  |  | again | with the spangled leaves and the wood with sprinkled leaves | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 2 | **spangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **glitter** | participle · passive |  | the wood |  |  |  | with drops of silver | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past · perfect | Gazer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **break** | past | the boy | a small branch |  |  |  | as a proof; in the last wood; from a tree | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient from tree=Co-Patient |

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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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