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title: Many a weary mile did they tramp, but got nothing but hard words or… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a weary mile did they tramp, but got nothing but hard words or laughter, or directions to the nearest cemetery, from people to whom they offered dead wives for sale. Who acts: villagers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 97

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Many a weary mile did they tramp, but got nothing but hard words or laughter, or directions to the nearest cemetery, from people to whom they offered dead wives for sale.

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**Who acts:** villagers · **What happens:** tramp, get, offer · **To what, where:** Many, nothing, dead wives

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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 (villagers), 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:pg3027:11:97
# text = Many a weary mile did they tramp, but got nothing but hard words or laughter, or directions to the nearest cemetery, from people to whom they offered dead wives for sale.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tramp	tramp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tramp** | past · do-support | villagers *= villager* | Many |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme many=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | past | villagers *= villager* *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | from people; directions to the nearest cemetery *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme from people=Source |
| 3 | **offer** | past | villagers *= villager* | dead wives |  |  |  | for sale *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for sale=Goal |

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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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