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title: So she walked on through the meadow till she came to an old tumbledo… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she walked on through the meadow till she came to an old tumbledown fence--so old that it was a wonder it managed to stand up at all, and it looked as if it depended for support on the old man's beard that climbed all over it. Who acts: woman, heart, it, beard. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Boo
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 25

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So she walked on through the meadow till she came to an old tumbledown fence--so old that it was a wonder it managed to stand up at all, and it looked as if it depended for support on the old man's beard that climbed all over it.

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**Who acts:** woman, heart, it, beard · **What happens:** walk on, come, be, manage, stand up, look · **To what, where:** meadow, old tumbledown fence, wonder, all, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, heart, it, beard), 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:pg3027:10:25
# text = So she walked on through the meadow till she came to an old tumbledown fence--so old that it was a wonder it managed to stand up at all, and it looked as if it depended for support on the old man's beard that climbed all over it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	tumbledown	tumbledown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	depended	depend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	's	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
48	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
49	all	all	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk on** | past | woman |  |  | the meadow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | woman |  |  | a old tumbledown fence |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | heart | a wonder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **manage** | past | heart | a wonder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand up** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location |
| 6 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **depend** | past | it |  |  |  |  | for support; on the old man's beard | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on beard=Theme |
| 8 | **climb** | past | the old man's beard |  |  | heart |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |

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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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