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title: At last he dreamt one night that he had found a blood-red flower, wh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he dreamt one night that he had found a blood-red flower, which had in its centre a beautiful large pearl. Who acts: Joringel, blood red flower. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 31

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At last he dreamt one night that he had found a blood-red flower, which had in its centre a beautiful large pearl.

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**Who acts:** Joringel, blood red flower · **What happens:** dreamt, find, have · **To what, where:** last, blood red flower, beautiful large pearl, centre

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel, blood red flower), 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:pg7277:41:31
# text = At last he dreamt one night that he had found a blood-red flower, which had in its centre a beautiful large pearl.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	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 | **dreamt** | past | Joringel |  |  | last | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | Joringel | a blood red flower |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | a blood red flower | a beautiful large pearl |  | last's centre |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient |

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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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