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title: Earth and water, trees and plants, birds and beasts, each was differ… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Earth and water, trees and plants, birds and beasts, each was different from those he had seen before; but what most struck terror into his heart was the absolute stillness that reigned everywhere. Who acts: each, fellow, Earth water, absolute stillness. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 63

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Earth and water, trees and plants, birds and beasts, each was different from those he had seen before; but what most struck terror into his heart was the absolute stillness that reigned everywhere.

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**Who acts:** each, fellow, Earth water, absolute stillness · **What happens:** be, see, strike, reign · **To what, where:** those, terror, heart, absolute stillness

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, fellow, Earth water, absolute stillness), 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:pg641:9:63
# text = Earth and water, trees and plants, birds and beasts, each was different from those he had seen before; but what most struck terror into his heart was the absolute stillness that reigned everywhere.
1	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	nsubj	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | each |  |  | those |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | fellow |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **strike** | participle |  | terror |  |  |  | into fellow's heart *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into heart=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Earth water and trees and plants and birds and beasts but the absolute stillness | the absolute stillness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reign** | past | the absolute stillness |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | tree rules |

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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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