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title: Makoma travelled far towards the west; over rough mountains and wate… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Makoma travelled far towards the west; over rough mountains and water-logged morasses, fording deep rivers, and tramping for days across dry deserts where most men would have died, until at length he arrived at a hut standing near some large peaks, and inside the hut were two beautiful women. Who ac
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 13

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Makoma travelled far towards the west; over rough mountains and water-logged morasses, fording deep rivers, and tramping for days across dry deserts where most men would have died, until at length he arrived at a hut standing near some large peaks, and inside the hut were two beautiful women.

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**Who acts:** Makoma, most men, hut, two beautiful women · **What happens:** travel, log, ford, tramp, die, arrive · **To what, where:** west, deep rivers, dry deserts, length, large peaks, hut

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Makoma, most men, hut, two beautiful women), 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:pg3027:2:13
# text = Makoma travelled far towards the west; over rough mountains and water-logged morasses, fording deep rivers, and tramping for days across dry deserts where most men would have died, until at length he arrived at a hut standing near some large peaks, and inside the hut were two beautiful women.
1	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	logged	log	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	morasses	morass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	fording	ford	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tramping	tramp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	near	near	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
46	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
53	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
54	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
55	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Makoma |  |  | the west |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards west=Destination |
| 2 | **log** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ford** | gerund | Makoma *not said here* | deep rivers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tramp** | gerund | Makoma *not said here* |  |  | dry deserts | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across desert=Trajectory |
| 5 | **die** | would · perfect | most men |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **arrive** | past | Makoma |  |  | length |  | at a hut | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stand** | gerund | a hut *not said here* |  |  | some large peaks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near peak=Location |
| 8 | **be** | past | two beautiful women |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside hut=Location |

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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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