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title: Now the stream was all choked up, and overgrown with weeds and water… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the stream was all choked up, and overgrown with weeds and water-plants, so that its waters could not flow freely. Who acts: waters. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 29

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Now the stream was all choked up, and overgrown with weeds and water-plants, so that its waters could not flow freely.

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**Who acts:** waters · **What happens:** choke up, overgrow, not flow · **To what, where:** stream

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters), 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:pg7277:6:29
# text = Now the stream was all choked up, and overgrown with weeds and water-plants, so that its waters could not flow freely.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke up** | past · passive |  | the stream |  |  | now | all *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **overgrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with weeds and water plants | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **flow** | could | stream's waters |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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