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title: A crowd gathered round her, and held her horns so that she could not… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A crowd gathered round her, and held her horns so that she could not use them, and, like the horse, she was shut in the stable, and only let out in the mornings, when a long rope was tied round her head, and she was fastened to a stake in a grassy meadow. Who acts: crowd. A sentence of «The Brown Fa
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 51

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A crowd gathered round her, and held her horns so that she could not use them, and, like the horse, she was shut in the stable, and only let out in the mornings, when a long rope was tied round her head, and she was fastened to a stake in a grassy meadow.

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**Who acts:** crowd · **What happens:** gather, hold, not use, shut, let out, tie · **To what, where:** horns, crowd, stable, long rope, grassy meadow

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd), 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:pg3282:21:51
# text = A crowd gathered round her, and held her horns so that she could not use them, and, like the horse, she was shut in the stable, and only let out in the mornings, when a long rope was tied round her head, and she was fastened to a stake in a grassy meadow.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mornings	morning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	45	mark	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	parataxis	_	_
46	round	round	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | a crowd |  |  |  |  | round cow | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | a crowd *not said here* | cow's horns |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **use** | could | crowd | horns *= horn* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **shut** | past · passive |  | crowd |  | the stable |  | like the horse | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **let out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tie** | past · passive |  | a long rope |  |  |  | round cow's head | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | crowd |  | a grassy meadow |  | to a stake | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to stake=Co-Patient |

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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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