--- title: Then she went home and planted the barley-corn; immediately there gr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then she went home and planted the barley-corn; immediately there grew out of it a large and beautiful flower, which looked like a tulip, but the petals were tightly closed as if it were still only a bud. Who acts: woman, large flower, corn. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/) / 74 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 74 Then she went home and planted the barley-corn; immediately there grew out of it a large and beautiful flower, which looked like a tulip, but the petals were tightly closed as if it were still only a bud. **Who acts:** woman, large flower, corn · **What happens:** go, plant, grow out, look, close, be · **To what, where:** barley corn, corn, petals 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 (woman, large flower, corn), 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:pg640:47:74 # text = Then she went home and planted the barley-corn; immediately there grew out of it a large and beautiful flower, which looked like a tulip, but the petals were tightly closed as if it were still only a bud. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 planted plant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 tulip tulip NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 petals petal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 34 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 43 case _ _ 37 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 still still ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 bud bud NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | woman | | | | then | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **plant** | past | woman *not said here* | the barley corn | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | | 3 | **grow out** | past | woman *not said here* | corn | | there | | a large flower *obl:unmarked* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 4 | **look** | past | a large flower | | | | | like a tulip | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **close** | past · passive | | the petals | | | | tightly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | corn | | | | still | as a bud | tree rules | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/75/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)