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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 97

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Attracted by the sweet perfume he flew lower, and perceived some large and beautiful gardens filled with the rarest flowers, and with fountains throwing up their clear waters into the air in a hundred different shapes.

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**Who acts:** godmother, fountains · **What happens:** attract, fly, perceive, fill, throw up · **To what, where:** large gardens, clear waters, air

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, fountains), 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:pg640:19:97
# text = Attracted by the sweet perfume he flew lower, and perceived some large and beautiful gardens filled with the rarest flowers, and with fountains throwing up their clear waters into the air in a hundred different shapes.
1	Attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
26	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attract** | participle | godmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sweet perfume | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | godmother |  |  |  |  | with fountains; low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | godmother *not said here* | some large gardens |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fill** | participle |  | some large gardens *not said here* |  |  |  | with the rarest flowers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flower=Instrument |
| 5 | **throw up** | gerund | fountains *not said here* | flowers's clear waters |  | the air |  | in hundred different shapes | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=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 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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