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title: Every evening the goldsmith would walk across to the cowherd's house… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every evening the goldsmith would walk across to the cowherd's house and say: 'Come, let's go out for a walk!' Who acts: goldsmith, 's. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 72

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Every evening the goldsmith would walk across to the cowherd's house and say: 'Come, let's go out for a walk!'

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**Who acts:** goldsmith, 's · **What happens:** walk, say, come, let, go out · **To what, where:** 's · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldsmith, 's), 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:pg3027:11:72
# text = Every evening the goldsmith would walk across to the cowherd's house and say: 'Come, let's go out for a walk!'
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	across	across	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | would | the goldsmith |  |  |  | evening | to the cowherd's house *result*; across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the goldsmith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go out** | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a walk; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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