--- title: For some time he wandered from village to village and from town to t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For some time he wandered from village to village and from town to town, till he came at length to a large city in a distant kingdom, surrounded on three sides by a great lake, which happened to be the very lake in which the dragon lived. Who acts: Dragon, great lake. 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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 (Dragon, great lake), 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:pg2435:8:78 # text = For some time he wandered from village to village and from town to town, till he came at length to a large city in a distant kingdom, surrounded on three sides by a great lake, which happened to be the very lake in which the dragon lived. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 45 cop _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 obl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 50 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | past | Dragon | | | village | time | to village and town; to town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | | 2 | **come** | past | Dragon | | | length | | to a large city in a distant kingdom | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **surround** | participle | | a distant kingdom *not said here* | | three sides | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **happen** | past | a great lake | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a great lake *not said here* | the lake | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | past | the dragon | | | the lake | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/79/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/8/)