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title: It grew in the midst of a wonderful garden, all the paths of which w… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It grew in the midst of a wonderful garden, all the paths of which were strewn with pearls as big as peas. Who acts: Branch. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 80

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It grew in the midst of a wonderful garden, all the paths of which were strewn with pearls as big as peas.

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**Who acts:** Branch · **What happens:** grow, be · **To what, where:** paths, midst

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branch), 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:pg540:36:80
# text = It grew in the midst of a wonderful garden, all the paths of which were strewn with pearls as big as peas.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Branch | all paths |  | the midst of a wonderful garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of all paths; with pearls; strewn *property* | tree rules |

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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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