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title: Wandering on he arrived one day at a great plain, well watered and f… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wandering on he arrived one day at a great plain, well watered and full of game; and in the very middle of it, close to a large river, was a grassy spot, very pleasant to make a home upon. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 92

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Wandering on he arrived one day at a great plain, well watered and full of game; and in the very middle of it, close to a large river, was a grassy spot, very pleasant to make a home upon.

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**What happens:** wonder, arrive, water, be, make · **To what, where:** great plain, grassy spot, middle, home

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3027:1:92
# text = Wandering on he arrived one day at a great plain, well watered and full of game; and in the very middle of it, close to a large river, was a grassy spot, very pleasant to make a home upon.
1	Wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  | a great plain | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **water** | participle |  | a great plain *not said here* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a grassy spot |  | the middle of middle |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a home |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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