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title: After a while as she sat under the shade of a green oak tree she loo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while as she sat under the shade of a green oak tree she looked up and spied a sprightly dove sitting high up on one of its branches. Who acts: daughter, sprightly dove. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 3

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After a while as she sat under the shade of a green oak tree she looked up and spied a sprightly dove sitting high up on one of its branches.

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**Who acts:** daughter, sprightly dove · **What happens:** sit, look up, spy, shade · **To what, where:** shade, green oak tree, sprightly dove

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, sprightly dove), 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:pg7439:35:3
# text = After a while as she sat under the shade of a green oak tree she looked up and spied a sprightly dove sitting high up on one of its branches.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | daughter |  |  | the shade of a green oak tree | while |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under shade=Location |
| 2 | **look up** | past | daughter | a green oak tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Attribute |
| 3 | **spy** | past | daughter *not said here* | a sprightly dove |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | a sprightly dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on one of dove's branches | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location |
| 5 | **shade** |  |  | a green oak tree |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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