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title: And as soon as it was in sight he was to climb up all the cherry-tre… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as soon as it was in sight he was to climb up all the cherry-trees and sprinkle the ashes on them, and they would soon blossom as they had never blossomed before. Who acts: procession, man, ashes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 40

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And as soon as it was in sight he was to climb up all the cherry-trees and sprinkle the ashes on them, and they would soon blossom as they had never blossomed before.

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**Who acts:** procession, man, ashes · **What happens:** be, sprinkle, blossom, not blossom · **To what, where:** ashes

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, man, ashes), 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:pg641:18:40
# text = And as soon as it was in sight he was to climb up all the cherry-trees and sprinkle the ashes on them, and they would soon blossom as they had never blossomed before.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	blossom	blossom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	blossomed	blossom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	before	before	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | procession |  |  |  |  | as sight | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | climb, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | infinitive | man *not said here* | the ashes |  |  |  | on ashes *= ash* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme on they=Destination |
| 4 | **blossom** | would | ashes *= ash* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **blossom** | past · perfect | ashes *= ash* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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