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title: Not far from the shore Prince Milan noticed thirty little white garm… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not far from the shore Prince Milan noticed thirty little white garments lying on the grass, and dismounting from his horse, he crept down under the high bulrushes, took one of the garments and hid himself with it behind the bushes which grew round the lake. Who acts: Prince Milan, thirty little whi
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 55

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Not far from the shore Prince Milan noticed thirty little white garments lying on the grass, and dismounting from his horse, he crept down under the high bulrushes, took one of the garments and hid himself with it behind the bushes which grew round the lake.

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**Who acts:** Prince Milan, thirty little white garments, horse, bushes · **What happens:** notice, lie, dismount, creep down, take, hide · **To what, where:** thirty little white garments, grass, high bulrushes, one, horse, bushes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Prince Milan, thirty little white garments, horse, bushes), 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:pg7277:27:55
# text = Not far from the shore Prince Milan noticed thirty little white garments lying on the grass, and dismounting from his horse, he crept down under the high bulrushes, took one of the garments and hid himself with it behind the bushes which grew round the lake.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dismounting	dismount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
39	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
42	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	round	round	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | Prince Milan | thirty little white garments |  |  |  | far *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer garment=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | thirty little white garments *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |
| 3 | **dismount** | gerund | Prince Milan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Milan's horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **creep down** | past | horse |  |  | the high bulrushes |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bulrush=Trajectory |
| 5 | **take** | past |  | one of the garments |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 6 | **hide** | past |  | horse |  | the bushes |  | with grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind bush=Location |
| 7 | **grow** | past | the bushes |  |  |  |  | round the lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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