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title: Then above the leafless prairie leaped the fat faced, laughing moon,… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: Then above the leafless prairie leaped the fat faced, laughing moon, And the stars--the spirits fairy--walked the welkin one by one. Who acts: fat, stars. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the Northwest, The Legend., sentence 29

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Then above the leafless prairie leaped the fat faced, laughing moon, And the stars--the spirits fairy--walked the welkin one by one.

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**Who acts:** fat, stars · **What happens:** leap, face, laugh, walk · **To what, where:** leafless prairie, moon, welkin

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, The Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fat, stars), 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:pg8122:17:29
# text = Then above the leafless prairie leaped the fat faced, laughing moon, And the stars--the spirits fairy--walked the welkin one by one.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	leafless	leafless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	faced	face	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	welkin	welkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | past |  |  |  | the leafless prairie | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **face** | past | the fat |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | the fat *not said here* | moon |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | past | the stars and the spirits fairy | the welkin |  |  |  | one by one *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme welkin=Trajectory |

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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 of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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