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title: On each side of the way the rows of flowers began to praise Petru, a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On each side of the way the rows of flowers began to praise Petru, and to try and persuade him to pick some of them and make himself a wreath. Who acts: rows, Petru. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 118

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On each side of the way the rows of flowers began to praise Petru, and to try and persuade him to pick some of them and make himself a wreath.

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**Who acts:** rows, Petru · **What happens:** begin, praise, try, persuade, pick, make · **To what, where:** side, Petru, some

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rows, Petru), 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:pg641:19:118
# text = On each side of the way the rows of flowers began to praise Petru, and to try and persuade him to pick some of them and make himself a wreath.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the rows of flowers |  |  | each side of the way |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **praise** | to-infinitive | the rows of flowers *not said here* | Petru |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **persuade** | infinitive |  | Petru |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **pick** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | Petru *not said here* | Petru |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary wreath=Product |

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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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