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title: The boy was glad of company and they went on, and on, and on, throug… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy was glad of company and they went on, and on, and on, through seven kingdoms, without finding anything they were able to do. Who acts: boy, soldiers. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 15

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The boy was glad of company and they went on, and on, and on, through seven kingdoms, without finding anything they were able to do.

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**Who acts:** boy, soldiers · **What happens:** be, go on, find, do · **To what, where:** seven kingdoms, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, soldiers), 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:pg2435:21:15
# text = The boy was glad of company and they went on, and on, and on, through seven kingdoms, without finding anything they were able to do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
24	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	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 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | of company; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  | seven kingdoms |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through kingdom=Location |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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