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title: The flower fell into a bed of soft earth and in a month or two there… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: The flower fell into a bed of soft earth and in a month or two there had sprung up a splendid mango tree that bore delicious fruit. Who acts: flower, splendid mango tree. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., with its dependency tree 
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 217

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The flower fell into a bed of soft earth and in a month or two there had sprung up a splendid mango tree that bore delicious fruit.

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**Who acts:** flower, splendid mango tree · **What happens:** fall, spring up, bear · **To what, where:** bed, splendid mango tree, delicious fruit

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower, splendid mango tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:19:217
# text = The flower fell into a bed of soft earth and in a month or two there had sprung up a splendid mango tree that bore delicious fruit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sprung	spring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the flower |  |  |  |  | into a bed of soft earth *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bed=Result |
| 2 | **spring up** | past · perfect | the flower *not said here* | a splendid mango tree |  | there | month |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past | a splendid mango tree | delicious fruit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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