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title: This kingdom was situated in the Island of Roses, where the climate… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This kingdom was situated in the Island of Roses, where the climate is so delicious that the grass is always green and the flowers always sweet. Who acts: climate, grass, flowers. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 10

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This kingdom was situated in the Island of Roses, where the climate is so delicious that the grass is always green and the flowers always sweet.

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**Who acts:** climate, grass, flowers · **What happens:** situate, be · **To what, where:** kingdom, Island

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (climate, grass, flowers), 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:pg640:16:10
# text = This kingdom was situated in the Island of Roses, where the climate is so delicious that the grass is always green and the flowers always sweet.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Roses	Rose	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **situate** | past · passive |  | this kingdom |  | the Island of Roses |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in island=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | the climate |  |  |  |  | delicious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the grass |  |  |  |  | always, green *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the flowers |  |  |  |  | always *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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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