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title: For three days he wandered by the most out- of-the-way paths, but no… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For three days he wandered by the most out- of-the-way paths, but no signs of a tower were to be seen anywhere. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 51

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For three days he wandered by the most out- of-the-way paths, but no signs of a tower were to be seen anywhere.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** wander, see, sign · **To what, where:** way paths, signs, tower

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg3027:33:51
# text = For three days he wandered by the most out- of-the-way paths, but no signs of a tower were to be seen anywhere.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
28	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | boy |  |  | way paths | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out path=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | no signs of a tower |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sign** |  |  | a tower |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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