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title: On and on she went, bounding over rivers and crashing through tangle… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on she went, bounding over rivers and crashing through tangles till she reached the sea. Who acts: Deer. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 22

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On and on she went, bounding over rivers and crashing through tangles till she reached the sea.

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**Who acts:** Deer · **What happens:** go, bound, crash, reach · **To what, where:** rivers, tangles, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deer), 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:pg3027:26:22
# text = On and on she went, bounding over rivers and crashing through tangles till she reached the sea.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tangles	tangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bound** | gerund | Deer *not said here* |  |  | rivers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **crash** | gerund | Deer *not said here* |  |  | tangles |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tangle=Location |
| 4 | **reach** | past | Deer | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=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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