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title: After passing through a few wide streets, well paved, and adorned wi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After passing through a few wide streets, well paved, and adorned with avenues of fine trees, they drove into the courtyard of a grand palace, which was full of spaniels who were evidently soldiers. Who acts: spaniels, grand palace. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 12

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After passing through a few wide streets, well paved, and adorned with avenues of fine trees, they drove into the courtyard of a grand palace, which was full of spaniels who were evidently soldiers.

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**Who acts:** spaniels, grand palace · **What happens:** pass, pave, adorn, drive, be · **To what, where:** few wide streets, courtyard, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 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 (spaniels, grand palace), 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:pg7277:15:12
# text = After passing through a few wide streets, well paved, and adorned with avenues of fine trees, they drove into the courtyard of a grand palace, which was full of spaniels who were evidently soldiers.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | spaniels *= spaniel* *not said here* |  |  | a few wide streets |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location |
| 2 | **pave** | participle |  | a few wide streets *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **adorn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with avenues of fine trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with avenue=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** | past | spaniels *= spaniel* |  |  | the courtyard of a grand palace |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | past | a grand palace |  |  |  |  | of spaniels; full *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | spaniels | soldiers |  |  |  | evidently *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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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