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title: They came to the forest, which was bursting into bud, and out of it… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They came to the forest, which was bursting into bud, and out of it came a splendid horse which Gerda knew; it was the one which had drawn the gold coach ridden by a young girl with a red cap on and pistols in her belt. Who acts: winds, forest, Gerda, bud. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 137

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They came to the forest, which was bursting into bud, and out of it came a splendid horse which Gerda knew; it was the one which had drawn the gold coach ridden by a young girl with a red cap on and pistols in her belt.

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**Who acts:** winds, forest, Gerda, bud · **What happens:** come, burst, know, be, draw, ride · **To what, where:** forest, bud, splendid horse, one, pistols, gold coach

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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, forest, Gerda, bud), 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:pg5615:10:137
# text = They came to the forest, which was bursting into bud, and out of it came a splendid horse which Gerda knew; it was the one which had drawn the gold coach ridden by a young girl with a red cap on and pistols in her belt.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | winds *= wind* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **burst** | past · progressive | the forest |  |  | bud |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | winds *= wind* *not said here* | a splendid horse |  | bud |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | Gerda | a splendid horse |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | bud | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **draw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the one |  | pistols |  | with a red cap; in Gerda's belt | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary coach=Result |
| 7 | **ride** | participle |  | the gold coach *not said here* |  |  |  | by a young girl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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