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title: Straight on he strode, letting neither hill nor river hinder him. — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Straight on he strode, letting neither hill nor river hinder him. Who acts: blessing, hill. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 99

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Straight on he strode, letting neither hill nor river hinder him.

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**Who acts:** blessing, hill · **What happens:** stride, let, hinder · **To what, where:** hill, blessing

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing, hill), 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:pg3027:29:99
# text = Straight on he strode, letting neither hill nor river hinder him.
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	10	cc	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	hinder	hinder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	xcomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past | blessing |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | gerund | blessing *not said here* | neither hill nor river |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hinder** | present | neither hill nor river *not said here* | blessing |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality |

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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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