--- title: He thought that he had been climbing that tree for days, and perhaps… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He thought that he had been climbing that tree for days, and perhaps he had, for suddenly a beautiful country, yellow with fields of maize, stretched before him, and he gladly left the top of the tree and entered it. Who acts: bird. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/18/) [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/) / 18 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 18 He thought that he had been climbing that tree for days, and perhaps he had, for suddenly a beautiful country, yellow with fields of maize, stretched before him, and he gladly left the top of the tree and entered it. **Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** think, climb, have, stretch, leave, enter · **To what, where:** tree, top · **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 (bird), 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:pg3027:35:18 # text = He thought that he had been climbing that tree for days, and perhaps he had, for suddenly a beautiful country, yellow with fields of maize, stretched before him, and he gladly left the top of the tree and entered it. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux _ _ 7 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | bird | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **climb** | past · perfect · progressive | bird | that tree | | | day | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | bird | | | | | for a beautiful country; perhaps *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stretch** | participle | bird *not said here* | | | | before bird | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **leave** | past | bird | the top of the tree | | | | gladly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme | | 6 | **enter** | past | bird *not said here* | top | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/19/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/)