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title: She used to wander in the meadows by his side, or ride behind him ov… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She used to wander in the meadows by his side, or ride behind him over the hills, but all the flax grown on his land was sent to old Habetrot to be converted into yarn. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with its dependency t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 51

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She used to wander in the meadows by his side, or ride behind him over the hills, but all the flax grown on his land was sent to old Habetrot to be converted into yarn.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** use, wander, ride, grow, send, convert · **To what, where:** meadows, hills, flax, land, old Habetrot, yarn

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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 (wife), 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:pg14241:31:51
# text = She used to wander in the meadows by his side, or ride behind him over the hills, but all the flax grown on his land was sent to old Habetrot to be converted into yarn.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	converted	convert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **wander** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  | the meadows |  | by face's side | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Trajectory |
| 3 | **ride** | infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  | the hills |  | behind face | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  | all flax *not said here* |  | face's land |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location |
| 5 | **send** | past · passive |  | all flax | old Habetrot |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to habetrot=Destination |
| 6 | **convert** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | into yarn *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into yarn=Result |

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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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