--- title: On the way they passed rivers in which men and women were bathing an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On the way they passed rivers in which men and women were bathing and fishing and boating; and farther on they came to gardens covered with heavy crops of rice and maize, and many other grains which Gopani-Kufa did not even know the name of. Who acts: hands, men, Gopani. A sentence of «The Orange Fa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/) / 63 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 63 On the way they passed rivers in which men and women were bathing and fishing and boating; and farther on they came to gardens covered with heavy crops of rice and maize, and many other grains which Gopani-Kufa did not even know the name of. **Who acts:** hands, men, Gopani · **What happens:** pass, be, come, cover, not know · **To what, where:** rivers, way, bathing, many other grains, gardens 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 (hands, men, Gopani), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:2:63 # text = On the way they passed rivers in which men and women were bathing and fishing and boating; and farther on they came to gardens covered with heavy crops of rice and maize, and many other grains which Gopani-Kufa did not even know the name of. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 bathing bathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 boating boating NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 21 on on SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 obj _ _ 40 Gopani Gopani PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Kufa Kufa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 flat _ _ 43 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl:relcl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | hands *= hand* | rivers | | the way | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent river=Theme on way=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | past | men and women | bathing and fishing and boating | | rivers | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | men *= man* | many other grains | | gardens | | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **cover** | participle | | gardens *not said here* | | | | with heavy crops of rice and maize | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crop=Theme | | 5 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Gopani | many other grains | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/)