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title: That day the cows wandered father than ever they had done before, an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That day the cows wandered father than ever they had done before, and never stopped till they had reached a moor where the heather was burning. Who acts: cows, heather. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 63

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That day the cows wandered father than ever they had done before, and never stopped till they had reached a moor where the heather was burning.

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**Who acts:** cows, heather · **What happens:** wander, do, not stop, reach, burn · **To what, where:** father, moor

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cows, heather), 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:pg3027:30:63
# text = That day the cows wandered father than ever they had done before, and never stopped till they had reached a moor where the heather was burning.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | the cows | father |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme father=Trajectory |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | cows *= cow* |  |  |  | ever | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | past | the cows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **reach** | past · perfect | cows *= cow* | a moor |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moor=Theme |
| 5 | **burn** | past · progressive | the heather |  |  |  |  |  | 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 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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