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title: Stana, the second, was so beautiful that when she was driving the fl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Stana, the second, was so beautiful that when she was driving the flock the wolves protected the sheep. Who acts: Stana. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 4

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Stana, the second, was so beautiful that when she was driving the flock the wolves protected the sheep.

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**Who acts:** Stana · **What happens:** be, drive, protect · **To what, where:** flock, sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stana), 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:pg641:35:4
# text = Stana, the second, was so beautiful that when she was driving the flock the wolves protected the sheep.
1	Stana	Stana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Stana |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drive** | past · progressive | Stana | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme wolf=Destination |
| 3 | **protect** | past | Stana *not said here* |  | the sheep |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary |

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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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