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title: The walk took some time, for it was very dark, and her shoes often s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The walk took some time, for it was very dark, and her shoes often stuck in the mud, but she was brave as well as beautiful and never thought of turning back merely because the path was both difficult and unpleasant. Who acts: walk, mother, path. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 28

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The walk took some time, for it was very dark, and her shoes often stuck in the mud, but she was brave as well as beautiful and never thought of turning back merely because the path was both difficult and unpleasant.

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**Who acts:** walk, mother, path · **What happens:** take, be, not think, turn back

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walk, mother, path), 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:pg3027:12:28
# text = The walk took some time, for it was very dark, and her shoes often stuck in the mud, but she was brave as well as beautiful and never thought of turning back merely because the path was both difficult and unpleasant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
33	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc:preconj	_	_
42	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the walk |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | walk |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn back** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | the path |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | the path *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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