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title: Over the moors she flew, and round and round the mountains, and stil… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the moors she flew, and round and round the mountains, and still the Big Women clung to her and snorted with pleasure. Who acts: eldest, Big Women. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 36

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Over the moors she flew, and round and round the mountains, and still the Big Women clung to her and snorted with pleasure.

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**Who acts:** eldest, Big Women · **What happens:** fly, round, cling, snort · **To what, where:** moors, mountains, eldest

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, Big Women), 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:pg3027:8:36
# text = Over the moors she flew, and round and round the mountains, and still the Big Women clung to her and snorted with pleasure.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
18	Women	Women	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	snorted	snort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | eldest *= eld* |  |  | the moors |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over moor=Location |
| 2 | **round** | infinitive | eldest *= eld* *not said here* | the mountains |  |  |  | round *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 3 | **cling** | past | the Big Women |  | eldest *= eld* |  | still |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **snort** | past | the Big Women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with pleasure | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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