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title: During their wanderings they came unperceived on a piece of waste la… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: During their wanderings they came unperceived on a piece of waste land where three splendid trees grew. Who acts: three splendid trees, sons. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 5

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During their wanderings they came unperceived on a piece of waste land where three splendid trees grew.

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**Who acts:** three splendid trees, sons · **What happens:** unperceiv, grow, wander · **To what, where:** sons, piece

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (three splendid trees, sons), 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:pg640:30:5
# text = During their wanderings they came unperceived on a piece of waste land where three splendid trees grew.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	unperceived	unperceiv	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unperceiv** | past · passive |  | sons *= son* |  | a piece of waste land | during sons's wanderings |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | three splendid trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** |  | sons *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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