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title: They soon reached a lovely green meadow on the border of a wood, whi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They soon reached a lovely green meadow on the border of a wood, which seemed to them so pleasant after their long voyage that they sat down to rest in the shade and amused themselves by watching the gambols and antics of a pretty tiny monkey in the trees close by. Who acts: sailors, wood, tiny monk
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 33

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They soon reached a lovely green meadow on the border of a wood, which seemed to them so pleasant after their long voyage that they sat down to rest in the shade and amused themselves by watching the gambols and antics of a pretty tiny monkey in the trees close by.

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**Who acts:** sailors, wood, tiny monkey · **What happens:** reach, seem, sit down, rest, amuse, watch · **To what, where:** lovely green meadow, border, sailors, shade, gambols

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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 (sailors, wood, tiny monkey), 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:pg7277:15:33
# text = They soon reached a lovely green meadow on the border of a wood, which seemed to them so pleasant after their long voyage that they sat down to rest in the shade and amused themselves by watching the gambols and antics of a pretty tiny monkey in the trees close by.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	_
37	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	gambols	gambol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	antics	antic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | sailors *= sailor* | a lovely green meadow |  | the border of a wood |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | a wood |  | sailors *= sailor* |  |  | pleasant *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | sailors *= sailor* *not said here* |  |  | the shade |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location |
| 5 | **amuse** | past | sailors *= sailor* *not said here* | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 6 | **watch** | gerund | sailors *= sailor* *not said here* | the gambols of a tiny monkey in the trees and antics |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gambol=Theme |
| 7 | **voyage** |  | sailors *= sailor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **gambol** |  | a tiny monkey in the trees |  |  |  |  |  | nom gambol «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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