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title: All round were more than a hundred wood-pigeons which seemed to be a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All round were more than a hundred wood-pigeons which seemed to be asleep, but they moved a little when the two girls came up. Who acts: hundred wood pigeons, pigeons, two girls. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 17

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All round were more than a hundred wood-pigeons which seemed to be asleep, but they moved a little when the two girls came up.

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**Who acts:** hundred wood pigeons, pigeons, two girls · **What happens:** be, seem, move, come up · **To what, where:** little

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 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 (hundred wood pigeons, pigeons, two girls), 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:pg5615:10:17
# text = All round were more than a hundred wood-pigeons which seemed to be asleep, but they moved a little when the two girls came up.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | than hundred wood pigeons; more, round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | hundred wood pigeons |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | hundred wood pigeons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | past | pigeons *= pigeon* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 5 | **come up** | past | the two girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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