--- title: The road on the other side led down an avenue of trees, and before t… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The road on the other side led down an avenue of trees, and before they had gone very far Gudu opened the bag that lay hidden in the thick hair about his neck, and began to eat some delicious-looking fruit. Who acts: other side, trees, road. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/81/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/) / 81 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 81 The road on the other side led down an avenue of trees, and before they had gone very far Gudu opened the bag that lay hidden in the thick hair about his neck, and began to eat some delicious-looking fruit. **Who acts:** other side, trees, road · **What happens:** lead down, go, open, hide, begin, eat · **To what, where:** avenue, bag, thick hair, looking fruit This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other side, trees, road), 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:pg3027:3:81 # text = The road on the other side led down an avenue of trees, and before they had gone very far Gudu opened the bag that lay hidden in the thick hair about his neck, and began to eat some delicious-looking fruit. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 avenue avenue NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 21 Gudu Gudu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 41 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 amod _ _ 44 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead down** | participle | the other side *not said here* | a avenue of trees | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avenue=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past · perfect | trees *= tree* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **open** | past | the road on the other side | the bag | | | | far *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | | 4 | **hide** | past · passive | | the bag | | the thick hair about Gudu's neck | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in hair=Location | | 5 | **begin** | past | the road on the other side *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the road on the other side *not said here* | some looking fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 7 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/82/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/3/)