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title: In another moment the sheep was standing on the ground and William w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In another moment the sheep was standing on the ground and William was running towards home as fast as his legs would carry him. Who acts: sheep, William, legs. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 39

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In another moment the sheep was standing on the ground and William was running towards home as fast as his legs would carry him.

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**Who acts:** sheep, William, legs · **What happens:** stand, run, carry · **To what, where:** moment, ground, home, sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, William, legs), 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:pg3454:10:39
# text = In another moment the sheep was standing on the ground and William was running towards home as fast as his legs would carry him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | the sheep | another moment *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moment=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 2 | **run** | past · progressive | William |  |  | home |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | would | sheep's legs | sheep |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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