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title: Roses and lilies bloomed on both sides, and in the centre a thicket… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Roses and lilies bloomed on both sides, and in the centre a thicket seemed to grow with rabbits and hares running through it, stags and fawns peeping through the branches, whilst on the topmost boughs sat birds of brilliant plumage and so life-like one almost expected to hear them sing. Who acts: th
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 34

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Roses and lilies bloomed on both sides, and in the centre a thicket seemed to grow with rabbits and hares running through it, stags and fawns peeping through the branches, whilst on the topmost boughs sat birds of brilliant plumage and so life-like one almost expected to hear them sing.

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**Who acts:** thicket, hares, fawns, topmost boughs, Roses, birds · **What happens:** bloom, seem, grow, run, peep, sit · **To what, where:** Roses, sides, centre, thicket, birds

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thicket, hares, fawns, topmost boughs), 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:pg7277:44:34
# text = Roses and lilies bloomed on both sides, and in the centre a thicket seemed to grow with rabbits and hares running through it, stags and fawns peeping through the branches, whilst on the topmost boughs sat birds of brilliant plumage and so life-like one almost expected to hear them sing.
1	Roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	fawns	fawn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
29	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
40	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
50	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | participle |  | Roses and lilies *not said here* |  | both sides |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | a thicket | the centre and like one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | a thicket *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with rabbits and hares and stags and fawns | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | hares *not said here* |  |  | thicket |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **peep** | gerund | fawns *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the branches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through branch=Theme |
| 6 | **sit** | past | the topmost boughs | birds of brilliant plumage |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme |
| 7 | **expect** | past | Roses and lilies |  |  | the centre and like one |  | almost *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Roses and lilies *not said here* | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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