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title: So back he went to the highroad and sat down on the bank of the rive… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So back he went to the highroad and sat down on the bank of the river close by, looking at the water, which was cool and clear. Who acts: rt, water. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 54

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So back he went to the highroad and sat down on the bank of the river close by, looking at the water, which was cool and clear.

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**Who acts:** rt, water · **What happens:** go, sit down, look, be · **To what, where:** highroad, bank

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rt, water), 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:pg14241:22:54
# text = So back he went to the highroad and sat down on the bank of the river close by, looking at the water, which was cool and clear.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	highroad	highroad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | rt |  |  | the highroad |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to highroad=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | rt *not said here* |  |  | the bank of the river |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | rt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at water=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the water |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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