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title: A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy tu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their heels in play. Who acts: mile, horses. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 1

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A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their heels in play.

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**Who acts:** mile, horses · **What happens:** come, kick up · **To what, where:** wide common, heels, play

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mile, horses), 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:pg3282:14:1
# text = A mile further on they came to a wide common, with short, springy turf, where horses of all colours, with skins of satin, were kicking up their heels in play.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	springy	springy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
19	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a mile |  |  | a wide common |  | with short springy turf; further *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to common=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **kick up** | past · progressive | horses of all colours | horses's heels |  | play |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heel=Patient in play=Location |

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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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