--- title: He longed to get to it, but how? neither road nor bridge was anywher… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He longed to get to it, but how? neither road nor bridge was anywhere to be seen, yet the city drew him upwards, and he felt that here at last was the country which he sought. Who acts: city, road, last country. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, road, last country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:19:28 # text = He longed to get to it, but how? neither road nor bridge was anywhere to be seen, yet the city drew him upwards, and he felt that here at last was the country which he sought. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ 11 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 12 cc:preconj _ _ 12 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 14 cc _ _ 14 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 2 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 upwards upwards ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advcl _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 sought seek VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **long** | past | city | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | city *not said here* | | air | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result | | 3 | **is** | past | road nor bridge | | | | | anywhere *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | road nor bridge *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **draw** | past | the city | Scarcely | | | | upwards *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **feel** | past | city | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | past | | | | the last country | | | tree rules | | 8 | **seek** | past | the last country | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/29/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/19/)