--- title: One lovely summer evening, as they sat together on a shady lawn shap… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One lovely summer evening, as they sat together on a shady lawn shaped like a star, from which radiated twelve splendid avenues of trees, the Queen looked round and saw a charming peasant-girl approaching by each path, and what was still more singular was that everyone carried something in a basket --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/114/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/) / 114 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 114 One lovely summer evening, as they sat together on a shady lawn shaped like a star, from which radiated twelve splendid avenues of trees, the Queen looked round and saw a charming peasant-girl approaching by each path, and what was still more singular was that everyone carried something in a basket which appeared to occupy her whole attention. **Who acts:** feelings, Queen, charming peasant girl, everyone, basket · **What happens:** sit, shape, radiate, look round, see, approach · **To what, where:** shady lawn, twelve splendid avenues, charming peasant girl, basket, whole attention This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feelings, Queen, charming peasant girl, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:8:114 # text = One lovely summer evening, as they sat together on a shady lawn shaped like a star, from which radiated twelve splendid avenues of trees, the Queen looked round and saw a charming peasant-girl approaching by each path, and what was still more singular was that everyone carried something in a basket which appeared to occupy her whole attention. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 2 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 shady shady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 radiated radiate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 23 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 avenues avenue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 31 round round ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 charming charming ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 36 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 39 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 45 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 49 nsubj _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 47 still still ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 48 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 49 advmod _ _ 49 singular singular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 51 that that SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 52 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 53 nsubj _ _ 53 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 parataxis _ _ 54 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 53 obj _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ _ 58 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 59 nsubj _ _ 59 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 acl:relcl _ _ 60 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 61 occupy occupy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 59 xcomp _ _ 62 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 63 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | feelings *= feeling* | | | a shady lawn | evening | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lawn=Location | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | a shady lawn *not said here* | | | | like a star | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **radiate** | past | | twelve splendid avenues of trees | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location avenue=Source | | 4 | **look round** | past | the Queen | | | | | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past | the Queen *not said here* | a charming peasant girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | | 6 | **approach** | gerund | a charming peasant girl *not said here* | | | | | by each path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | | still | singular *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | everyone | | | a basket | | carry *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **appear** | past | a basket | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 10 | **occupy** | to-infinitive | a basket *not said here* | Queen's whole attention | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attention=Experiencer | | 11 | **attend** | | Queen | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/115/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Watch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/8/)