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title: The red rocks had become white marble and alabaster; the stream that… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The red rocks had become white marble and alabaster; the stream that murmured and struggled before in its rocky bed, flowed in silence now in its smooth channel, from which a clear fountain leapt, to fall again in showers of diamond drops, now on this side now on that, as the wandering breeze scatte
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 12

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The red rocks had become white marble and alabaster; the stream that murmured and struggled before in its rocky bed, flowed in silence now in its smooth channel, from which a clear fountain leapt, to fall again in showers of diamond drops, now on this side now on that, as the wandering breeze scattered it.

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**Who acts:** red rocks, stream, wandering breeze · **What happens:** become, murmur, struggle, flow, leapt, fall · **To what, where:** white marble, rocky bed, silence, showers, stream

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red rocks, stream, wandering breeze), 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:pg3282:31:12
# text = The red rocks had become white marble and alabaster; the stream that murmured and struggled before in its rocky bed, flowed in silence now in its smooth channel, from which a clear fountain leapt, to fall again in showers of diamond drops, now on this side now on that, as the wandering breeze scattered it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	alabaster	alabaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
52	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	59	amod	_	_
59	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | the red rocks | white marble and alabaster |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **struggle** | past | the stream *not said here* |  |  | stream's rocky bed |  | before *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **flow** | participle | the stream *not said here* |  |  | silence | now | in stream's smooth channel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Location |
| 5 | **leapt** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the stream *not said here* |  |  | showers of diamond drops | again | on this side on that | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location |
| 7 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **scatter** | past | the wandering breeze | stream |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **channel** |  | stream |  |  |  |  |  | nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=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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