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title: She glided down, past trees and fields, till she came to a large che… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She glided down, past trees and fields, till she came to a large cherry garden, in which stood a little house with strange red and blue windows and a straw roof. Who acts: river. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 4

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She glided down, past trees and fields, till she came to a large cherry garden, in which stood a little house with strange red and blue windows and a straw roof.

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**Who acts:** river · **What happens:** glide down, come, stand · **To what, where:** trees, large cherry garden, little house

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), 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:pg5615:9:4
# text = She glided down, past trees and fields, till she came to a large cherry garden, in which stood a little house with strange red and blue windows and a straw roof.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	past	past	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	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	12	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide down** | past | river | trees and fields |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | river |  |  | a large cherry garden |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | a little house |  |  |  | with strange red windows and a straw roof | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |

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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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