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title: The flowers were lovelier, the streams ran quicker, the sunbeams sho… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The flowers were lovelier, the streams ran quicker, the sunbeams shone brighter, and the fairies seemed gayer. Who acts: flowers, streams, sunbeams, fairies. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 15

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The flowers were lovelier, the streams ran quicker, the sunbeams shone brighter, and the fairies seemed gayer.

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**Who acts:** flowers, streams, sunbeams, fairies · **What happens:** be, run, shine, seem

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, streams, sunbeams, fairies), 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:pg641:22:15
# text = The flowers were lovelier, the streams ran quicker, the sunbeams shone brighter, and the fairies seemed gayer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	gayer	gay	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  | lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | past | the streams |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | past | the sunbeams |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the fairies |  |  |  |  | gay *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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