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title: The wanderers by this time were very hot and tired, and the grass lo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wanderers by this time were very hot and tired, and the grass looked very soft and inviting, and the trees cast cool deep shadows, when suddenly an ogre appeared in this Paradise, in the shape of a big, big dog! Who acts: wanderers, grass, trees, ogre. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 43

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The wanderers by this time were very hot and tired, and the grass looked very soft and inviting, and the trees cast cool deep shadows, when suddenly an ogre appeared in this Paradise, in the shape of a big, big dog!

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**Who acts:** wanderers, grass, trees, ogre · **What happens:** be, look, invite, cast, appear · **To what, where:** cool deep shadows, Paradise

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wanderers, grass, trees, ogre), 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:pg5615:1:43
# text = The wanderers by this time were very hot and tired, and the grass looked very soft and inviting, and the trees cast cool deep shadows, when suddenly an ogre appeared in this Paradise, in the shape of a big, big dog!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wanderers	wanderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	33	mark	_	_
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wanderers by this time |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the wanderers by this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | the grass |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **invite** | gerund | the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cast** | present | the trees | cool deep shadows |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product |
| 6 | **appear** | past | a ogre |  |  | this Paradise |  | in the shape of a big big dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in paradise=Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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