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title: For in front of him stretched a forest that was far more wonderful,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For in front of him stretched a forest that was far more wonderful, as it was made of glistening trees and shining flowers. Who acts: forest. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 37

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For in front of him stretched a forest that was far more wonderful, as it was made of glistening trees and shining flowers.

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**Who acts:** forest · **What happens:** stretch, be, make, glisten, shine · **To what, where:** forest, trees, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (forest), 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:pg641:20:37
# text = For in front of him stretched a forest that was far more wonderful, as it was made of glistening trees and shining flowers.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past |  | a forest |  |  |  | for front of Petru | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | a forest |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | forest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **glisten** | gerund |  | trees |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 5 | **shine** | gerund |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flower=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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