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title: Across the wide rivers, where the wild fowl rose and fled before him… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Across the wide rivers, where the wild fowl rose and fled before him, and over the plains and the cold North Sea he went, over the fields of snow and the hills of ice, to a place where the world ends, and all water is frozen, and there are no men, nor beasts, nor any green grass. Who acts: wild fowl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 48

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Across the wide rivers, where the wild fowl rose and fled before him, and over the plains and the cold North Sea he went, over the fields of snow and the hills of ice, to a place where the world ends, and all water is frozen, and there are no men, nor beasts, nor any green grass.

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**Who acts:** wild fowl, fowl, world, men · **What happens:** rise, flee, go, end, freeze, be · **To what, where:** beasts, wide rivers, plains, water

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild fowl, fowl, world, men), 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:pg503:27:48
# text = Across the wide rivers, where the wild fowl rose and fled before him, and over the plains and the cold North Sea he went, over the fields of snow and the hills of ice, to a place where the world ends, and all water is frozen, and there are no men, nor beasts, nor any green grass.
1	Across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
42	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	55	expl	_	_
55	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
56	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	57	det	_	_
57	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	60	cc	_	_
60	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	65	cc	_	_
63	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	65	det	_	_
64	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the wild fowl | beasts |  | the wide rivers |  | any green grass *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the wild fowl *not said here* |  |  |  | before fowl |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | fowl |  |  | the plains and the cold North Sea |  | over the fields of snow and the hills of ice; to a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over plain=Initial\_Location over field=Destination |
| 4 | **end** | present | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **freeze** | present · passive |  | all water |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 6 | **does** | present | no men |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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