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title: Dancing, laughing, joining hands and tripping feet, the bright thron… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 56

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Dancing, laughing, joining hands and tripping feet, the bright throng moved along up Gold Street and down Silver Street, and beyond Silver Street lay the cool green forest full of old oaks and wide-spreading beeches.

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**Who acts:** Dancing · **What happens:** laugh, join, trip, move, lie, spread · **To what, where:** hands, feet, bright throng, Gold Street, cool green forest, beeches

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dancing), 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:pg14241:15:56
# text = Dancing, laughing, joining hands and tripping feet, the bright throng moved along up Gold Street and down Silver Street, and beyond Silver Street lay the cool green forest full of old oaks and wide-spreading beeches.
1	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	joining	join	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tripping	trip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	throng	throng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Gold	Gold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	Silver	Silver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Silver	Silver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
28	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
41	beeches	beech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund | Dancing and the bright throng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join** | gerund | Dancing and the bright throng *not said here* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **trip** | gerund | Dancing and the bright throng *not said here* | feet |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Agent |
| 4 | **move** | participle |  | the bright throng *not said here* |  | Gold Street and Silver Street |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along street=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lie** | past | Dancing and the bright throng | the cool green forest |  |  |  | beyond Silver Street | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme |
| 6 | **spread** | gerund | Dancing and the bright throng *not said here* | beeches |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beech=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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