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title: The village girls met and danced in a ring, singing, ‘Beautiful spri… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The village girls met and danced in a ring, singing, ‘Beautiful spring, how came you here? Who acts: village girls. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 41

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The village girls met and danced in a ring, singing, ‘Beautiful spring, how came you here?

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**Who acts:** village girls · **What happens:** meet, dance, sing, come · **To what, where:** ring, you

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village 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:pg5615:16:41
# text = The village girls met and danced in a ring, singing, ‘Beautiful spring, how came you here?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the village girls |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dance** | past | the village girls *not said here* |  |  | a ring |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the village girls *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past |  | you |  | here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=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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