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title: Prince Milan’s charger was still grazing on the grass which grew nea… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Milan’s charger was still grazing on the grass which grew near the water. Who acts: charger, grass. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 19

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Prince Milan’s charger was still grazing on the grass which grew near the water.

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**Who acts:** charger, grass · **What happens:** graze, grow · **To what, where:** water

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charger, grass), 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:pg7277:28:19
# text = Prince Milan’s charger was still grazing on the grass which grew near the water.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Milan	Milan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | past · progressive | Prince Milan's charger |  |  |  | still | on the grass | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the grass |  |  | the water |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near water=Location |

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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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