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title: Weeks passed away, and there sprang up in the hole an elder tree whi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Weeks passed away, and there sprang up in the hole an elder tree which had three stems, all as straight as poplars. Who acts: Weeks, elder tree. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 19

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Weeks passed away, and there sprang up in the hole an elder tree which had three stems, all as straight as poplars.

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**Who acts:** Weeks, elder tree · **What happens:** pass away, spring up, have · **To what, where:** hole, three stems

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Weeks, elder tree), 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:pg641:6:19
# text = Weeks passed away, and there sprang up in the hole an elder tree which had three stems, all as straight as poplars.
1	Weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	poplars	poplar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | past | Weeks |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spring up** | past | Weeks *not said here* |  |  | the hole; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | a elder tree | three stems |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient |

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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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