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title: And how beautiful everything on the other side was! lovely green pat… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And how beautiful everything on the other side was! lovely green paths leading through woods and fields covered with flowers, birds with gold and silver feathers singing on the trees, lovely butterflies and glittering beetles fluttered and crawled about, and dear little beasts hid in the bushes and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 47

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And how beautiful everything on the other side was! lovely green paths leading through woods and fields covered with flowers, birds with gold and silver feathers singing on the trees, lovely butterflies and glittering beetles fluttered and crawled about, and dear little beasts hid in the bushes and hedges.

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**Who acts:** lovely green paths, silver feathers, beetles, dear little beasts · **What happens:** be, lead, cover, sing, glitter, flutter · **To what, where:** lovely green paths, woods, trees, bushes

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely green paths, silver feathers, beetles, dear little beasts), 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:pg7277:55:47
# text = And how beautiful everything on the other side was! lovely green paths leading through woods and fields covered with flowers, birds with gold and silver feathers singing on the trees, lovely butterflies and glittering beetles fluttered and crawled about, and dear little beasts hid in the bushes and hedges.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	conj	_	_
38	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
42	about	about	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | lovely green paths |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | lovely green paths *not said here* |  |  | woods and fields |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through wood=Destination |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | woods and fields *not said here* |  |  |  | with flowers and birds with gold and silver feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | silver feathers *not said here* |  |  | the trees and lovely butterflies |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | silver feathers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **flutter** | past | beetles |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **crawl** | past | beetles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hide** | past | dear little beasts |  |  | the bushes and hedges |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=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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