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title: Once upon a time there lived in Lapland a man who was so very strong… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time there lived in Lapland a man who was so very strong and swift of foot that nobody in his native town of Vadso could come near him if they were running races in the summer evenings. Who acts: man, swift, clothes. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 63

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Once upon a time there lived in Lapland a man who was so very strong and swift of foot that nobody in his native town of Vadso could come near him if they were running races in the summer evenings.

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**Who acts:** man, swift, clothes · **What happens:** live, be, come, run · **To what, where:** man, Lapland, races

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, swift, clothes), 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:pg3027:36:63
# text = Once upon a time there lived in Lapland a man who was so very strong and swift of foot that nobody in his native town of Vadso could come near him if they were running races in the summer evenings.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Vadso	Vadso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
30	near	near	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
36	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a man |  | Lapland; there | time | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lapland=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | a man |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | could | swift of foot |  |  |  |  | near man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location |
| 4 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | clothes | races |  |  | evening |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory |

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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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