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title: There flowed a great wide stream, with slippery and marshy banks; he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There flowed a great wide stream, with slippery and marshy banks; here the toad lived with her son. Who acts: toad. 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 85

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There flowed a great wide stream, with slippery and marshy banks; here the toad lived with her son.

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**Who acts:** toad · **What happens:** flow, live · **To what, where:** great wide stream

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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 (toad), 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:pg640:47:85
# text = There flowed a great wide stream, with slippery and marshy banks; here the toad lived with her son.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past |  | a great wide stream |  | there |  | with slippery banks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the toad |  |  | here |  | with THUMBELINA's son | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with son=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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