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title: At last they came to warm lands; there the sun was brighter, the sky… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last they came to warm lands; there the sun was brighter, the sky seemed twice as high, and in the hedges hung the finest green and purple grapes; in the woods grew oranges and lemons: the air was scented with myrtle and mint, and on the roads were pretty little children running about and playing
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 227

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At last they came to warm lands; there the sun was brighter, the sky seemed twice as high, and in the hedges hung the finest green and purple grapes; in the woods grew oranges and lemons: the air was scented with myrtle and mint, and on the roads were pretty little children running about and playing with great gorgeous butterflies.

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**Who acts:** King, last, sky, woods, oranges, little children · **What happens:** come, be, seem, hang, grow, scent · **To what, where:** warm lands, finest green grapes, hedges, oranges, air, little children

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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 (King, last, sky, woods), 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:pg640:47:227
# text = At last they came to warm lands; there the sun was brighter, the sky seemed twice as high, and in the hedges hung the finest green and purple grapes; in the woods grew oranges and lemons: the air was scented with myrtle and mint, and on the roads were pretty little children running about and playing with great gorgeous butterflies.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
18	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
38	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
56	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
57	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
59	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	58	acl	_	_
60	about	about	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	59	conj	_	_
63	with	with	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
65	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | King | warm lands |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location land=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | last |  |  | there |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the sky |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | past | the sky *not said here* | the finest green grapes |  | the hedges |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grape=Theme in hedge=Destination |
| 5 | **grow** | past | the woods | oranges and lemons |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orange=Theme |
| 6 | **scent** | past · passive | oranges and lemons *not said here* | the air |  |  |  | with myrtle and mint | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with myrtle=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | little children |  | the roads |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **run about** | gerund | little children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **play** | gerund | little children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with great gorgeous butterflies | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with butterfly=Co-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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