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title: But one morning in the spring, long before the sun rose, they were h… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But one morning in the spring, long before the sun rose, they were hastening towards it from opposite directions, when, tempted by the beauty of the myriads of gay flowers which grew thickly on all sides, they paused each to gather some for the other. Who acts: sun, rays, gay flowers. A sentence of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 20

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But one morning in the spring, long before the sun rose, they were hastening towards it from opposite directions, when, tempted by the beauty of the myriads of gay flowers which grew thickly on all sides, they paused each to gather some for the other.

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**Who acts:** sun, rays, gay flowers · **What happens:** rise, hasten, tempt, grow, pause, gather · **To what, where:** opposite directions, sides, each, some

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rays, gay flowers), 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:pg7277:9:20
# text = But one morning in the spring, long before the sun rose, they were hastening towards it from opposite directions, when, tempted by the beauty of the myriads of gay flowers which grew thickly on all sides, they paused each to gather some for the other.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	myriads	myriad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	gay	gay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
44	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
47	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	obj	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  | morning | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hasten** | past · progressive | rays *= ray* |  |  | opposite directions |  | towards sun | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
| 3 | **tempt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the beauty of the myriads of gay flowers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **grow** | past | gay flowers |  |  | all sides |  | thickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 5 | **pause** | past | rays *= ray* | each |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **gather** | to-infinitive | rays *= ray* *not said here* | some |  |  |  | for the other | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent some=Theme for other=Beneficiary |

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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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