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title: The peas which I strewed about must have sprouted, so that we shall… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The peas which I strewed about must have sprouted, so that we shall not miss the way.’ Who acts: peas, we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 112

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The peas which I strewed about must have sprouted, so that we shall not miss the way.’

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**Who acts:** peas, we · **What happens:** strew, sprout, not miss · **To what, where:** peas, way

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peas, we), 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:pg641:10:112
# text = The peas which I strewed about must have sprouted, so that we shall not miss the way.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	strewed	strew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strew** | past | the peas |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sprout** | must · perfect · passive |  | the peas |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **not** **miss** | shall | we | the way |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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