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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 22

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Hither and thither they strayed, led ever farther and farther, for the brightest flowers seemed always just beyond them, until at last they were startled by the first bright rays of the rising sun. With one accord they turned and ran towards the fountain, reaching it at the same moment, though from opposite sides.

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**Who acts:** Sylvain, brightest flowers, first bright rays · **What happens:** stray, lead, seem, startle, rise, turn · **To what, where:** Sylvain, opposite sides, fountain, rising sun.

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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 (Sylvain, brightest flowers, first bright rays), 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:pg7277:9:22
# text = Hither and thither they strayed, led ever farther and farther, for the brightest flowers seemed always just beyond them, until at last they were startled by the first bright rays of the rising sun. With one accord they turned and ran towards the fountain, reaching it at the same moment, though from opposite sides.
1	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	strayed	stray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl:relcl	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	until	until	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	amod	_	_
32	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	amod	_	_
37	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	With	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
45	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	from	from	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stray** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  |  | hither, thither *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | participle | Sylvain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the brightest flowers |  |  |  |  | beyond Sylvain; always *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **startle** | past · passive | the first bright rays of the rising sun. | Sylvain |  | opposite sides |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  |  | with one accord | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **run** | past | Sylvain *not said here* |  |  | the fountain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards fountain=Destination |
| 8 | **reach** | gerund | Sylvain *not said here* | fountain |  |  | moment |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **ray** |  |  | the rising sun. |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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