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title: One Sunday he was walking across the west field, 't was a beautiful… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One Sunday he was walking across the west field, 't was a beautiful July night, warm and still and the air was full of little sounds as though the trees and grass were chattering to themselves. Who acts: lad, t, air, trees. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fair
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 41

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One Sunday he was walking across the west field, 't was a beautiful July night, warm and still and the air was full of little sounds as though the trees and grass were chattering to themselves.

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**Who acts:** lad, t, air, trees · **What happens:** walk, be, chatter · **To what, where:** west field, beautiful night, trees

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, t, air, trees), 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:pg14241:17:41
# text = One Sunday he was walking across the west field, 't was a beautiful July night, warm and still and the air was full of little sounds as though the trees and grass were chattering to themselves.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | lad |  |  | the west field | sunday |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | t | a beautiful night |  |  | july |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the air |  |  |  |  | of little sounds; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **chatter** | past · progressive | the trees and grass |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to themselves=Recipient |

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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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