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title: One summer night, when a round full moon shone down upon the white r… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One summer night, when a round full moon shone down upon the white road, a great wolf came trotting round the corner. Who acts: round full moon, great wolf. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 49

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One summer night, when a round full moon shone down upon the white road, a great wolf came trotting round the corner.

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**Who acts:** round full moon, great wolf · **What happens:** shine down, come, trot · **To what, where:** white road, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (round full moon, great wolf), 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:pg3027:6:49
# text = One summer night, when a round full moon shone down upon the white road, a great wolf came trotting round the corner.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine down** | past | a round full moon |  |  | the white road | night | down *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon road=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | a great wolf |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trot** | gerund | a great wolf *not said here* |  |  | the corner |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round corner=Trajectory |

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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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