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title: In the mountain yonder there dwells a roe, white of foot, with horns… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the mountain yonder there dwells a roe, white of foot, with horns that branch like the antlers of a deer. Who acts: horns. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 12

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In the mountain yonder there dwells a roe, white of foot, with horns that branch like the antlers of a deer.

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**Who acts:** horns · **What happens:** dwell, branch · **To what, where:** roe, mountain

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horns), 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:pg3027:31:12
# text = In the mountain yonder there dwells a roe, white of foot, with horns that branch like the antlers of a deer.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	roe	roe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	branch	branch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | present |  | a roe |  | the mountain; there |  | with horns | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme roe=Location |
| 2 | **branch** | present | horns |  |  |  |  | like the antlers of a deer | vn differ-23.4 «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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