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title: ‘Out in the king’s garden,’ said she, ‘under the great oak that stan… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Out in the king’s garden,’ said she, ‘under the great oak that stands on the left hand, just as one goes out from the castle, is a little bush, rather brown than green, with hairy leaves and long spikes. Who acts: garden, great oak, one. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 79

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‘Out in the king’s garden,’ said she, ‘under the great oak that stands on the left hand, just as one goes out from the castle, is a little bush, rather brown than green, with hairy leaves and long spikes.

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**Who acts:** garden, great oak, one · **What happens:** say, stand, go out, be · **To what, where:** left hand, castle, great oak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, great oak, one), 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:pg5615:6:79
# text = ‘Out in the king’s garden,’ said she, ‘under the great oak that stands on the left hand, just as one goes out from the castle, is a little bush, rather brown than green, with hairy leaves and long spikes.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nsubj	_	_
28	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	spikes	spike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the king's garden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the great oak |  |  | the left hand |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location |
| 3 | **go out** | present | one |  |  | the castle |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | garden |  |  | the great oak |  | than green; with hairy leaves and long spikes; brown *property* | tree rules |

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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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