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title: Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelle… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelles feeding. Who acts: girl, gazelles. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 101

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Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelles feeding.

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**Who acts:** girl, gazelles · **What happens:** cross, pass, feed · **To what, where:** plain, herd

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, gazelles), 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:pg3282:15:101
# text = Crossing the plain, the girl and her father passed a herd of gazelles feeding.
1	Crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | gerund | the girl and girl's father *not said here* | the plain |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the girl and girl's father | a herd of gazelles |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herd=Trajectory |
| 3 | **feed** | gerund | gazelles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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 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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