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title: When they reached the bush with red berries there stood the reindeer… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the bush with red berries there stood the reindeer waiting for them. Who acts: winds, reindeer. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 132

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When they reached the bush with red berries there stood the reindeer waiting for them.

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**Who acts:** winds, reindeer · **What happens:** reach, stand, wait · **To what, where:** bush, reindeer

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winds, reindeer), 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:pg5615:10:132
# text = When they reached the bush with red berries there stood the reindeer waiting for them.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | winds *= wind* | the bush |  | there |  | with red berries | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bush=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the reindeer |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reindeer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for winds *= wind* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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