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title: When you are leading out your flocks to pasture, they will all run s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you are leading out your flocks to pasture, they will all run straight to these meadows, and none that have gone there have ever been known to come back. Who acts: you, leading, flocks. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 84

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When you are leading out your flocks to pasture, they will all run straight to these meadows, and none that have gone there have ever been known to come back.

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**Who acts:** you, leading, flocks · **What happens:** lead out, pasture, run, go, know, come back · **To what, where:** flocks, meadows, none

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, leading, flocks), 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:pg2435:8:84
# text = When you are leading out your flocks to pasture, they will all run straight to these meadows, and none that have gone there have ever been known to come back.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pasture	pasture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead out** | present · progressive | you | your flocks |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme |
| 2 | **pasture** | to-infinitive | leading |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | future | flocks *= flock* | this meadows |  |  |  | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meadow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **go** | present · perfect |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | none |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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