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title: Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the full moon by the mill-pond and had played on the golden flute; the recollection was too much for her, and she burst into tears. Who acts: shepherdess, wife, recollection. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Si
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 40

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Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the full moon by the mill-pond and had played on the golden flute; the recollection was too much for her, and she burst into tears.

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**Who acts:** shepherdess, wife, recollection · **What happens:** think, sit, play, be, burst · **To what, where:** full moon, golden flute, tears

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherdess, wife, recollection), 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:pg640:21:40
# text = Then the shepherdess thought of that evening when she had sat at the full moon by the mill-pond and had played on the golden flute; the recollection was too much for her, and she burst into tears.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	recollection	recollection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the shepherdess |  |  |  | then; evening |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past · perfect | wife |  |  | the full moon |  | by the mill pond | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at moon=Location |
| 3 | **play** | past · perfect | wife *not said here* |  |  | the golden flute |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the recollection |  |  |  |  | for wife; much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **burst** | past | wife |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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