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title: He saw the smoke curling through the roof, and the thatch where gree… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the smoke curling through the roof, and the thatch where green plants had thickly sprouted. Who acts: length, smoke. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 101

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He saw the smoke curling through the roof, and the thatch where green plants had thickly sprouted.

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**Who acts:** length, smoke · **What happens:** see, curl, sprout · **To what, where:** smoke, roof, thatch

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, smoke), 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:pg5615:3:101
# text = He saw the smoke curling through the roof, and the thatch where green plants had thickly sprouted.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thatch	thatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	thickly	thickly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | length | the smoke |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus |
| 2 | **curl** | gerund | the smoke *not said here* |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through roof=Destination |
| 3 | **sprout** | past · perfect · passive |  | the thatch |  |  |  | thickly *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |

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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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