--- title: As she did so, the sprig of myrtle she carried touched the ground, a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As she did so, the sprig of myrtle she carried touched the ground, and immediately a green and shady bower sprang up round her, in which she hoped to sleep in peace. Who acts: Lagree, sprig, green bower. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lagree, sprig, green bower), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:23:95 # text = As she did so, the sprig of myrtle she carried touched the ground, and immediately a green and shady bower sprang up round her, in which she hoped to sleep in peace. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sprig sprig NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 myrtle myrtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 bower bower NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 round round ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obl _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hoped hope VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Lagree | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carry** | past | the sprig of myrtle | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **touch** | past | the sprig of myrtle *not said here* | the ground | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | | 4 | **spring up** | past | a green bower | | | | | round Lagree; immediately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hope** | past | Lagree | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **sleep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lagree *not said here* | | | peace | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/94/) - next →: [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/1/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)