--- title: The cherry-trees were bare, for it was the season when small pots of… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The cherry-trees were bare, for it was the season when small pots of them were sold to rich people, who kept them in hot places, so that they might blossom early and decorate their rooms. Who acts: cherry trees, tree, rich people, ashes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/43/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/) / 43 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 43 The cherry-trees were bare, for it was the season when small pots of them were sold to rich people, who kept them in hot places, so that they might blossom early and decorate their rooms. **Who acts:** cherry trees, tree, rich people, ashes · **What happens:** be, sell, keep, blossom, decorate · **To what, where:** small pots, ashes, hot places, rooms 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 (cherry trees, tree, rich people, ashes), 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:pg641:18:43 # text = The cherry-trees were bare, for it was the season when small pots of them were sold to rich people, who kept them in hot places, so that they might blossom early and decorate their rooms. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 blossom blossom VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 36 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 decorate decorate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the cherry trees | | | | | bare *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | tree | | | | for the season | | tree rules | | 3 | **sell** | past · passive | rich people | small pots of ashes | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | past | rich people | ashes *= ash* | | hot places | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Location | | 5 | **blossom** | might | ashes *= ash* | | | | | early *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **decorate** | infinitive | ashes *= ash* *not said here* | ashes's rooms | | | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/44/) - ↑ back to [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/)