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title: The flock was feeding quietly in a meadow, and there was no danger o… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: The flock was feeding quietly in a meadow, and there was no danger of its wandering away. Who acts: flock, danger. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 56

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The flock was feeding quietly in a meadow, and there was no danger of its wandering away.

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**Who acts:** flock, danger · **What happens:** feed, be, wonder away · **To what, where:** meadow, danger

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, danger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:24:56
# text = The flock was feeding quietly in a meadow, and there was no danger of its wandering away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past · progressive | the flock |  |  | a meadow |  | quietly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location |
| 2 | **be** | past | no danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wonder away** *speech: ask* | gerund | danger | no danger *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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