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title: As to the trees in the open air, no one would ever think of looking… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the trees in the open air, no one would ever think of looking for the tiniest bud for more than a month yet. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 44

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As to the trees in the open air, no one would ever think of looking for the tiniest bud for more than a month yet.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** think, look

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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 (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:pg641:18:44
# text = As to the trees in the open air, no one would ever think of looking for the tiniest bud for more than a month yet.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	25	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would | no one |  |  |  | ever | as the trees in the open air | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | no one *not said here* |  |  |  | yet; month | for the tiniest bud | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bud=Theme |

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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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