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title: Her swamps are wide and empty, and no human beings dwell there; only… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her swamps are wide and empty, and no human beings dwell there; only frogs and toads and other creatures of that sort.’ Who acts: swamps, human beings. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 17

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Her swamps are wide and empty, and no human beings dwell there; only frogs and toads and other creatures of that sort.’

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**Who acts:** swamps, human beings · **What happens:** be, dwell

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swamps, human beings), 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:pg7277:30:17
# text = Her swamps are wide and empty, and no human beings dwell there; only frogs and toads and other creatures of that sort.’
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dwell	dwell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Puddocky's swamps |  |  |  |  | wide *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Puddocky's swamps *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | no human beings |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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