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title: A wide stream flowed through the garden, and on it floated richly or… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A wide stream flowed through the garden, and on it floated richly ornamented barges and gondolas filled with people dressed in the most elegant manner and covered with jewels. Who acts: wide stream. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, p
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 98

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A wide stream flowed through the garden, and on it floated richly ornamented barges and gondolas filled with people dressed in the most elegant manner and covered with jewels.

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**Who acts:** wide stream · **What happens:** flow, float, ornament, fill, dress, cover · **To what, where:** wide stream, garden, ornamented barges, people, elegant manner

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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 (wide stream), 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:pg640:19:98
# text = A wide stream flowed through the garden, and on it floated richly ornamented barges and gondolas filled with people dressed in the most elegant manner and covered with jewels.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	barges	barge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gondolas	gondola	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | participle |  | a wide stream *not said here* |  | the garden |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Location |
| 2 | **float** | past | a wide stream | ornamented barges and gondolas |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barge=Agent |
| 3 | **ornament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fill** | participle |  | ornamented barges and gondolas *not said here* |  |  |  | with people | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with people=Instrument |
| 5 | **dress** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  | the elegant manner |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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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