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title: Far, far away he wandered, over mountains and across rivers, till he… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far, far away he wandered, over mountains and across rivers, till he reached a village where the people were quite different from those of his own race. Who acts: youth, people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 121

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Far, far away he wandered, over mountains and across rivers, till he reached a village where the people were quite different from those of his own race.

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**Who acts:** youth, people · **What happens:** wander, reach, be, race · **To what, where:** mountains, village, those

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, people), 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:pg3027:20:121
# text = Far, far away he wandered, over mountains and across rivers, till he reached a village where the people were quite different from those of his own race.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | youth |  |  | mountains and rivers |  | away, far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | past | youth | a village |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the people |  |  | those |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **race** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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