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title: The shepherd stood wondering how the poor snake could escape, for th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The shepherd stood wondering how the poor snake could escape, for the wind was blowing the flames that way, and soon that tree would be burning like the rest. Who acts: shepherd, poor snake, wind. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its depende
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 10

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The shepherd stood wondering how the poor snake could escape, for the wind was blowing the flames that way, and soon that tree would be burning like the rest.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, poor snake, wind · **What happens:** stand, wonder, escape, blow, burn · **To what, where:** flames · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, poor snake, wind), 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:pg2435:6:10
# text = The shepherd stood wondering how the poor snake could escape, for the wind was blowing the flames that way, and soon that tree would be burning like the rest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **escape** | could | the poor snake |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | past · progressive | the wind | the flames |  |  |  | that way *obl:unmarked* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=Patient |
| 5 | **burn** | would · progressive | the shepherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the rest; soon *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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