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title: At a stone’s throw from where they stood ran a rushing stream, with… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At a stone’s throw from where they stood ran a rushing stream, with clear deep pools. Who acts: brothers, stone. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 50

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At a stone’s throw from where they stood ran a rushing stream, with clear deep pools.

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**Who acts:** brothers, stone · **What happens:** stand, run, rush, throw · **To what, where:** rushing stream, throw

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, stone), 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:pg641:22:50
# text = At a stone’s throw from where they stood ran a rushing stream, with clear deep pools.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	throw	throw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | past |  | a rushing stream |  | a stone's throw |  | with clear deep pools | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stream=Theme at throw=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** |  | a stone |  |  |  |  |  | nom throw «act transitive»: 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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