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title: All this had happened with such rapidity that they had only time to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All this had happened with such rapidity that they had only time to utter a cry, and each to hold up to the other the flowers they had gathered; but this was explanation enough. Who acts: this, Sylvain, each, other flowers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, wit
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 24

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All this had happened with such rapidity that they had only time to utter a cry, and each to hold up to the other the flowers they had gathered; but this was explanation enough.

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**Who acts:** this, Sylvain, each, other flowers · **What happens:** happen, have, utter, hold up, gather, be · **To what, where:** cry, Sylvain, explanation

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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 (this, Sylvain, each, other 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:pg7277:9:24
# text = All this had happened with such rapidity that they had only time to utter a cry, and each to hold up to the other the flowers they had gathered; but this was explanation enough.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rapidity	rapidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · perfect | this |  |  |  |  | with such rapidity | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Sylvain *not said here* | a cry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 4 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | each |  |  |  |  | to the other flowers | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **gather** | past · perfect · passive | the other flowers *not said here* | Sylvain |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | this explanation |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |

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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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