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title: Just outside the wood where she was now living lay a great corn-field. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just outside the wood where she was now living lay a great corn-field. Who acts: wood. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 131

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Just outside the wood where she was now living lay a great corn-field.

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**Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** live, lay · **To what, where:** great corn field

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood), 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:pg640:47:131
# text = Just outside the wood where she was now living lay a great corn-field.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · progressive | the wood |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | the wood *not said here* | a great corn field |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Result |

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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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