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title: Further on they crossed another plain, where the grass was thick and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Further on they crossed another plain, where the grass was thick and green, but on it were feeding a foal and its mother, so lean that you could have counted their ribs. Who acts: cows, grass, you. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 79

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Further on they crossed another plain, where the grass was thick and green, but on it were feeding a foal and its mother, so lean that you could have counted their ribs.

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**Who acts:** cows, grass, you · **What happens:** cross, be, feed, lean, count · **To what, where:** plain, foal, ribs

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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, grass, you), 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:pg3027:30:79
# text = Further on they crossed another plain, where the grass was thick and green, but on it were feeding a foal and its mother, so lean that you could have counted their ribs.
1	Further	further	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	foal	foal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	lean	lean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | cows *= cow* | another plain |  |  |  | further *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the grass |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feed** | past · progressive | grass |  | a foal and grass's mother |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Recipient |
| 5 | **lean** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **count** | could · perfect | you | cows's ribs |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=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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