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title: At last she reached a knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she reached a knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands. Who acts: girl, feet. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency tree and t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 4

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At last she reached a knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.

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**Who acts:** girl, feet · **What happens:** reach, run, shade, sit down, bury · **To what, where:** knoll, last, little burn, face, hands

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, feet), 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:pg14241:31:4
# text = At last she reached a knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knoll	knoll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	woodbine	woodbine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	burying	bury	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | girl | a knoll |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent knoll=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **run** | past | feet | a little burn |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burn=Trajectory |
| 3 | **shade** | participle |  | a little burn *not said here* |  |  |  | with woodbine and wild roses | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | girl |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bury** | gerund | girl *not said here* | girl's face |  | girl's hands |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in hand=Destination |

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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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