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title: ‘The ground is hard and covered with snow, they can’t plant me yet,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The ground is hard and covered with snow, they can’t plant me yet, and that is why I am staying here under cover till the spring comes. Who acts: ground, doors, that, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 114

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‘The ground is hard and covered with snow, they can’t plant me yet, and that is why I am staying here under cover till the spring comes.

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**Who acts:** ground, doors, that, I, spring · **What happens:** be, cover, not plant, stay, come · **To what, where:** me, cover

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, doors, that, I), 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:pg5615:11:114
# text = ‘The ground is hard and covered with snow, they can’t plant me yet, and that is why I am staying here under cover till the spring comes.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	parataxis	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the ground |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with snow=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **plant** | can | doors *= door* | me |  |  | yet |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | present · progressive | I |  |  | cover; here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under cover=Location |
| 6 | **come** | present | the spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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