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title: As they all passed through the streets the people stared in wonder,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they all passed through the streets the people stared in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake. Who acts: flocks, people. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 99

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As they all passed through the streets the people stared in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake.

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**Who acts:** flocks, people · **What happens:** pass, stare, not have, return · **To what, where:** flock, lake

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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 (flocks, people), 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:pg2435:8:99
# text = As they all passed through the streets the people stared in wonder, for never before had any flock returned from the lake.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | flocks *= flock* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stare** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | in wonder; through the streets | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through street=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **have** | participle |  | any flock |  |  |  | before *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | participle |  | any flock *not said here* |  | the lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial\_Location |

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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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