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title: After some miles they rode through a meadow with grass so green that… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After some miles they rode through a meadow with grass so green that Helga’s eyes felt quite dazzled; and feeding on the grass were a quantity of large fat sheep, with the curliest and whitest wool in the world. Who acts: miles, eyes, feeding. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 92

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After some miles they rode through a meadow with grass so green that Helga’s eyes felt quite dazzled; and feeding on the grass were a quantity of large fat sheep, with the curliest and whitest wool in the world.

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**Who acts:** miles, eyes, feeding · **What happens:** ride, feel, dazzle, feed, be · **To what, where:** meadow, quantity

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, eyes, feeding), 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:pg3282:13:92
# text = After some miles they rode through a meadow with grass so green that Helga’s eyes felt quite dazzled; and feeding on the grass were a quantity of large fat sheep, with the curliest and whitest wool in the world.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	Helga	Helga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	curliest	curly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	whitest	white	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	conj	_	_
39	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | miles *= mile* |  |  | a meadow | after some miles | with grass | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Helga's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **dazzle** | participle | Helga's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **feed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on the grass | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | feeding | a quantity and the curliest wool in the world |  |  |  | of large fat sheep | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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