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title: On they went through thick forests where the sun never shone, over r… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On they went through thick forests where the sun never shone, over rivers so wide that it took a whole day to sail across them, up hills whose sides were all of glass; on they went through seven times seven countries till Peter reined in his horse before the house of an old woman. Who acts: others, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 98

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On they went through thick forests where the sun never shone, over rivers so wide that it took a whole day to sail across them, up hills whose sides were all of glass; on they went through seven times seven countries till Peter reined in his horse before the house of an old woman.

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**Who acts:** others, sun, it, hills, Peter · **What happens:** go, not shine, take, sail, go through, rein · **To what, where:** thick forests, all

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, sun, it, hills), 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:pg2435:27:98
# text = On they went through thick forests where the sun never shone, over rivers so wide that it took a whole day to sail across them, up hills whose sides were all of glass; on they went through seven times seven countries till Peter reined in his horse before the house of an old woman.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	through	through	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	reined	rein	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	before	before	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | others *= other* |  |  | thick forests |  | over rivers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial\_Location over river=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | it |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sail** | to-infinitive |  | all |  |  |  | across others *= other* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **go through** | past | hills *= hill* |  |  |  | time | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **rein** | past | Peter |  |  |  | before the house of a old woman | in Peter's horse | 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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