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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 95

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At last she saw before her a great plain, quite covered with all sorts of flowers, the scent of which seemed to her nicer than anything she had ever smelled before; a broad river of orange-flower water flowed round it and fountains of wine of every kind ran in all directions and made the prettiest little cascades and brooks.

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**Who acts:** sheep, scent, broad river · **What happens:** see, cover, seem, smell, flow, run · **To what, where:** great plain, flower water, directions, prettiest little cascades, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, scent, broad river), 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:pg503:30:95
# text = At last she saw before her a great plain, quite covered with all sorts of flowers, the scent of which seemed to her nicer than anything she had ever smelled before; a broad river of orange-flower water flowed round it and fountains of wine of every kind ran in all directions and made the prettiest little cascades and brooks.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	xcomp	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
32	smelled	smell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
43	flowed	flow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	round	round	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	det	_	_
52	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	56	det	_	_
56	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
60	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	62	amod	_	_
61	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	cascades	cascade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | sheep | a great plain and the scent |  |  | before Fairyland |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a great plain and the scent *not said here* |  |  |  | with all sorts of flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the scent |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smell** | past · perfect | sheep |  |  |  | ever | before *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **flow** | participle |  | flower water *not said here* |  |  |  | round water | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | past | a broad river of flower water and fountains of wine of every kind |  |  | all directions |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 7 | **make** | past | a broad river of flower water and fountains of wine of every kind *not said here* | the prettiest little cascades and brooks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cascade=Product |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | flowers |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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