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title: It was in a capital position, for it could get sun, and there was en… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in a capital position, for it could get sun, and there was enough air, and all around grew many tall companions, both pines and firs. Who acts: tree, enough air. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 158

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It was in a capital position, for it could get sun, and there was enough air, and all around grew many tall companions, both pines and firs.

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**Who acts:** tree, enough air · **What happens:** be, get, grow · **To what, where:** capital position, sun, many tall companions

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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 (tree, enough air), 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:pg5615:10:158
# text = It was in a capital position, for it could get sun, and there was enough air, and all around grew many tall companions, both pines and firs.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	around	around	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc:preconj	_	_
29	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	firs	fir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | tree |  |  | a capital position |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | could | tree | sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | past | enough air |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | tree *not said here* | many tall companions both pines and firs |  |  |  | all, around *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location companion=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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