--- title: On and on they went, and when at length the thread stopped the broth… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On and on they went, and when at length the thread stopped the brothers knew that another day's journey would bring them to the Stalos' dwelling. Who acts: sheds, brothers, journey, day. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/108/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/) / 108 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 108 On and on they went, and when at length the thread stopped the brothers knew that another day's journey would bring them to the Stalos' dwelling. **Who acts:** sheds, brothers, journey, day · **What happens:** go, stop, know, bring, dwell, journey · **To what, where:** length, sheds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheds, brothers, journey, day), 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:pg3027:35:108 # text = On and on they went, and when at length the thread stopped the brothers knew that another day's journey would bring them to the Stalos' dwelling. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 on on SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 18 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Stalos Stalos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ' 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 dwelling dwell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | sheds *= shed* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | past | sheds *= shed* *not said here* | | | length the thread | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | | 3 | **know** | past | the brothers | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **bring** | would | another day's journey | sheds *= shed* | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **dwell** | gerund | another day's journey *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **journey** | | another day | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/109/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/)