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title: He walked on for many miles, seeing nothing that surprised him, but… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked on for many miles, seeing nothing that surprised him, but in an open space of the wood he was astonished at finding a man combing trees as another man would comb flax. Who acts: Shepherd, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, with its 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 24

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He walked on for many miles, seeing nothing that surprised him, but in an open space of the wood he was astonished at finding a man combing trees as another man would comb flax.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd, man · **What happens:** walk, see, surprise, be, find, comb · **To what, where:** nothing, Shepherd, open space, man, trees, flax

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, man), 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:pg2435:31:24
# text = He walked on for many miles, seeing nothing that surprised him, but in an open space of the wood he was astonished at finding a man combing trees as another man would comb flax.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
25	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	combing	comb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	comb	comb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
36	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Shepherd |  |  |  |  | on many miles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mile=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Shepherd *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **surprise** | past |  | Shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | Shepherd |  |  | a open space of the wood |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | gerund | Shepherd *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 6 | **comb** | gerund | a man *not said here* | trees |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 7 | **comb** | would | another man | flax |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Patient |

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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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