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title: The princess did so, and a great forest sprang up behind them, and,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess did so, and a great forest sprang up behind them, and, so thick were its leaves, that even a wren could not get through. Who acts: princess, great forest, thick leaves. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 105

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The princess did so, and a great forest sprang up behind them, and, so thick were its leaves, that even a wren could not get through.

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**Who acts:** princess, great forest, thick leaves · **What happens:** do, spring up, be, not get through · **To what, where:** thick leaves, that

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (princess, great forest, thick leaves), 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:pg641:39:105
# text = The princess did so, and a great forest sprang up behind them, and, so thick were its leaves, that even a wren could not get through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wren	wren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
30	through	through	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spring up** | past | a great forest |  |  |  |  | behind mountains *= mountain* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | ear's thick leaves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **get through** | could | ear's thick leaves | that |  |  |  | a wren *obl*; through *property* | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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