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title: For some time they walked about looking at the flowers, the genius a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time they walked about looking at the flowers, the genius all the while pressing her to pick any she fancied. Who acts: genius, guest. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 18

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For some time they walked about looking at the flowers, the genius all the while pressing her to pick any she fancied.

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**Who acts:** genius, guest · **What happens:** walk, look, press, pick, fancy · **To what, where:** guest, any

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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 (genius, guest), 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:pg641:39:18
# text = For some time they walked about looking at the flowers, the genius all the while pressing her to pick any she fancied.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | genius |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | genius *not said here* |  |  |  | while | at the flowers and the genius | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme |
| 3 | **press** | gerund | genius *not said here* | guest |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result |
| 4 | **pick** | to-infinitive | genius *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
| 5 | **fancy** | past | guest |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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