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title: Down this hole she poured all the gold, and when it was out of sight… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Down this hole she poured all the gold, and when it was out of sight it ran about all over the world, where people that dig hard sometimes find it. Who acts: hole, gold, people. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 62

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Down this hole she poured all the gold, and when it was out of sight it ran about all over the world, where people that dig hard sometimes find it.

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**Who acts:** hole, gold, people · **What happens:** pour, be, run about, dig, find · **To what, where:** gold, sight, world

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, gold, people), 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:pg3282:8:62
# text = Down this hole she poured all the gold, and when it was out of sight it ran about all over the world, where people that dig hard sometimes find it.
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **pour** | past | this hole | all gold |  |  |  | down *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | gold |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run about** | past | gold |  |  | the world |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory |
| 4 | **dig** | present | people |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | present | people | gold |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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