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title: A year passed by, and found them still in that wild land, hunting th… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A year passed by, and found them still in that wild land, hunting the reindeer, and digging pits for the mountain sheep to fall into. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 98

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A year passed by, and found them still in that wild land, hunting the reindeer, and digging pits for the mountain sheep to fall into.

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**What happens:** pass by, find, hunt, dig, fall · **To what, where:** sons, wild land, reindeer, pits

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. 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:pg3027:15:98
# text = A year passed by, and found them still in that wild land, hunting the reindeer, and digging pits for the mountain sheep to fall into.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past |  | sons *= son* |  | that wild land |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund |  | the reindeer |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme |
| 4 | **dig** | gerund |  | pits |  |  |  | for the mountain sheep | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pit=Result for sheep=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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