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title: But that was the time when wolves and lambs lay peacefully together… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But that was the time when wolves and lambs lay peacefully together in one stall, and shepherds dined on grassy banks with kings and queens. Who acts: that, wolves, shepherds. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 62

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But that was the time when wolves and lambs lay peacefully together in one stall, and shepherds dined on grassy banks with kings and queens.

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**Who acts:** that, wolves, shepherds · **What happens:** be, lie, dine · **To what, where:** time, one stall

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, wolves, shepherds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:783`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:9:62
# text = But that was the time when wolves and lambs lay peacefully together in one stall, and shepherds dined on grassy banks with kings and queens.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lambs	lamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	dined	dine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | the time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | past | wolves and lambs |  |  | one stall |  | peacefully, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location |
| 3 | **dine** | past | shepherds |  |  |  |  | with kings and queens; on grassy banks | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bank=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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