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title: The people were standing about the streets doing their marketing, wh… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The people were standing about the streets doing their marketing, when the gazelle bounded past, the diamond flashing as it ran. Who acts: people, streets, gazelle, diamond. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 43

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The people were standing about the streets doing their marketing, when the gazelle bounded past, the diamond flashing as it ran.

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**Who acts:** people, streets, gazelle, diamond, grass · **What happens:** stand, do, bound, flash, run, market · **To what, where:** marketing, diamond

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, streets, gazelle, diamond), 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:pg641:15:43
# text = The people were standing about the streets doing their marketing, when the gazelle bounded past, the diamond flashing as it ran.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	marketing	marketing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	past	past	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | the people |  |  |  |  | about the streets | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about street=Location |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the streets *not said here* | people's marketing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marketing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bound** | past | the gazelle | the diamond |  |  |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flash** | gerund | the diamond *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | past | grass |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **market** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom marketing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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