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title: Wandering over the plain, he noticed a troop of gazelles, and pointe… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wandering over the plain, he noticed a troop of gazelles, and pointed to his greyhound to give chase. Who acts: mourning. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 83

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Wandering over the plain, he noticed a troop of gazelles, and pointed to his greyhound to give chase.

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**Who acts:** mourning · **What happens:** wonder, notice, point, give · **To what, where:** plain, troop, greyhound, chase

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mourning), 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:pg3027:13:83
# text = Wandering over the plain, he noticed a troop of gazelles, and pointed to his greyhound to give chase.
1	Wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | mourning *not said here* |  |  | the plain |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **notice** | past | mourning | a troop of gazelles |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus |
| 3 | **point** | participle |  |  | mourning's greyhound |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to greyhound=Recipient |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | chase |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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