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title: It was a real tulip, such as one can see any day; but in the middle… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a real tulip, such as one can see any day; but in the middle of the blossom, on the green velvety petals, sat a little girl, quite tiny, trim, and pretty. Who acts: corn, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 76

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It was a real tulip, such as one can see any day; but in the middle of the blossom, on the green velvety petals, sat a little girl, quite tiny, trim, and pretty.

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**Who acts:** corn, one · **What happens:** be, see, sit · **To what, where:** real tulip, little girl, middle

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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 (corn, one), 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:pg640:47:76
# text = It was a real tulip, such as one can see any day; but in the middle of the blossom, on the green velvety petals, sat a little girl, quite tiny, trim, and pretty.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tulip	tulip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	velvety	velvety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
29	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	trim	trim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | corn | a real tulip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | can | one |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sit** | past |  | a little girl |  | the middle of the blossom and the green velvety petals |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in middle=Location |

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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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