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title: All that day they rode, for game was plentiful, but towards evening… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All that day they rode, for game was plentiful, but towards evening the mother and son found themselves alone in a part of the country that was strange to them. Who acts: people, game, mother, country. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its d
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 69

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All that day they rode, for game was plentiful, but towards evening the mother and son found themselves alone in a part of the country that was strange to them.

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**Who acts:** people, game, mother, country · **What happens:** ride, be, find · **To what, where:** people, part

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, game, mother, country), 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:pg2435:12:69
# text = All that day they rode, for game was plentiful, but towards evening the mother and son found themselves alone in a part of the country that was strange to them.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | people |  |  |  | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | game |  |  |  |  | plentiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | the mother and son | people |  | a part of the country | evening | alone *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | the country |  | people |  |  | strange *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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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