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title: As the bamboos became thinner, he found himself opposite to a beauti… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the bamboos became thinner, he found himself opposite to a beautiful garden, in the centre of which stood a tiny spick-and-span little house, and out of the house came a lovely maiden, who unlatched the gate and invited him in the most hospitable way to enter and rest. Who acts: bamboos, man, cen
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 69

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As the bamboos became thinner, he found himself opposite to a beautiful garden, in the centre of which stood a tiny spick-and-span little house, and out of the house came a lovely maiden, who unlatched the gate and invited him in the most hospitable way to enter and rest.

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**Who acts:** bamboos, man, centre, tiny spick · **What happens:** become, find, stand, span, come, unlatch · **To what, where:** man, centre, tiny spick, little house, house, gate

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bamboos, man, centre, tiny spick), 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:pg5615:36:69
# text = As the bamboos became thinner, he found himself opposite to a beautiful garden, in the centre of which stood a tiny spick-and-span little house, and out of the house came a lovely maiden, who unlatched the gate and invited him in the most hospitable way to enter and rest.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spick	spick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	span	span	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	unlatched	unlatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	52	advmod	_	_
52	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the bamboos |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past | man | man |  | the centre |  | opposite *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the centre | a tiny spick |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spick=Stimulus |
| 4 | **span** | present | a tiny spick *not said here* | little house |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the bamboos *not said here* |  |  | the house |  | maiden *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out house=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **unlatch** | past |  | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
| 7 | **invite** | past |  |  | man | the hospitable way |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 8 | **enter** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **rest** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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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