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title: Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges an… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges and ditches they both went, till they reached the rocky pass which bordered the herdsman’s land. Who acts: rope, youth, hedges, rocky pass. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, with i
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 125

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Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges and ditches they both went, till they reached the rocky pass which bordered the herdsman’s land.

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**Who acts:** rope, youth, hedges, rocky pass · **What happens:** dash away, follow, go, reach, border · **To what, where:** wood, rocky pass, land

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope, youth, hedges, rocky pass), 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:pg2435:26:125
# text = Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges and ditches they both went, till they reached the rocky pass which bordered the herdsman’s land.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ditches	ditch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	bordered	border	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash away** | past | rope |  |  | the wood and the youth | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wood=Destination |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | hedges and ditches |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | hedges *= hedge* | the rocky pass |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pass=Theme |
| 5 | **border** | past | the rocky pass | the herdsman's land |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme |

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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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