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title: Therefore they went from one place to another, living only on the fr… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore they went from one place to another, living only on the fruit and nuts they could find in the woods, and getting hungrier every day. Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 41

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Therefore they went from one place to another, living only on the fruit and nuts they could find in the woods, and getting hungrier every day.

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**Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** go, live, find, get · **To what, where:** one place, fruit, woods

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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:pg3027:16:41
# text = Therefore they went from one place to another, living only on the fruit and nuts they could find in the woods, and getting hungrier every day.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
26	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	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 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | one place to another |  | therefore *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  | the fruit and nuts |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fruit=Location |
| 3 | **find** | could | brothers *= brother* | the fruit and nuts *not said here* |  | the woods |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  | day | hungry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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