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title: Then the winter came, and the snow lay white and sparkling all aroun… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the winter came, and the snow lay white and sparkling all around, and a hare would come and spring right over the little fir-tree, which annoyed it very much. Who acts: winter, snow, hare. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 5

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Then the winter came, and the snow lay white and sparkling all around, and a hare would come and spring right over the little fir-tree, which annoyed it very much.

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**Who acts:** winter, snow, hare · **What happens:** come, lie, sparkle, spring · **To what, where:** little fir tree

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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 (winter, snow, hare), 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:pg5615:11:5
# text = Then the winter came, and the snow lay white and sparkling all around, and a hare would come and spring right over the little fir-tree, which annoyed it very much.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	spring	spring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the winter |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sparkle** | gerund | the snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | would | a hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spring** | infinitive | a hare *not said here* |  |  | the little fir tree |  | right *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Trajectory |

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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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