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title: Day after day they fed their flocks of sheep together, and spent the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Day after day they fed their flocks of sheep together, and spent the long sunshiny hours in playing, or resting upon some shady bank. Who acts: Day. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 4

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Day after day they fed their flocks of sheep together, and spent the long sunshiny hours in playing, or resting upon some shady bank.

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**Who acts:** Day · **What happens:** feed, spend, rest · **To what, where:** flocks, playing, shady bank

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day), 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:pg7277:9:4
# text = Day after day they fed their flocks of sheep together, and spent the long sunshiny hours in playing, or resting upon some shady bank.
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	sunshiny	sunshiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	playing	playing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | Day after day | Sylvain's flocks of sheep |  |  |  | together *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient |
| 2 | **spend** | past | Day after day *not said here* |  |  | playing | hour |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | Day after day *not said here* |  |  | some shady bank |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bank=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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