--- title: In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautifu… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautiful young aspens, and the stepmother, who hated the sight of the trees, which reminded her of her crime, gave orders that they should be uprooted. Who acts: stepmother, trees. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/41/) [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 Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 41 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 41 In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautiful young aspens, and the stepmother, who hated the sight of the trees, which reminded her of her crime, gave orders that they should be uprooted. **Who acts:** stepmother, trees · **What happens:** bury, sprang up, hate, remind, give, uproot · **To what, where:** babies, two beautiful young aspens, place, sight, stepmother, orders This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, trees), 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:pg641:35:41 # text = In the place where they had been buried there sprang up two beautiful young aspens, and the stepmother, who hated the sight of the trees, which reminded her of her crime, gave orders that they should be uprooted. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 10 sprang sprang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 aspens aspen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hated hate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 reminded remind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 37 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 uprooted uproot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | past · perfect · passive | | babies *= baby* | | there | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **sprang up** | present | | two beautiful young aspens | | the place | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hate** | past | the stepmother | the sight of the trees | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 4 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | the trees | | stepmother | | | of stepmother's crime | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of crime=Topic | | 5 | **give** | past | the stepmother *not said here* | orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 6 | **uproot** | should · passive | | babies *= baby* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **sight** | | | the trees | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **incriminate** | | stepmother | | | | | | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/42/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)