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title: As they were looking about to find where the largest berries grew th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they were looking about to find where the largest berries grew they heard the tramp of horses approaching, so loud that you would have thought a whole army was riding by. Who acts: sisters, largest berries, horses, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golde
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 7

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As they were looking about to find where the largest berries grew they heard the tramp of horses approaching, so loud that you would have thought a whole army was riding by.

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**Who acts:** sisters, largest berries, horses, you, whole army · **What happens:** look, find, grow, hear, approach, think · **To what, where:** tramp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sisters, largest berries, horses, you), 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:pg641:35:7
# text = As they were looking about to find where the largest berries grew they heard the tramp of horses approaching, so loud that you would have thought a whole army was riding by.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	ccomp	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the largest berries |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | sisters *= sister* | the tramp of horses |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tramp=Stimulus |
| 5 | **approach** | gerund | horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **ride by** | past · progressive | a whole army |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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