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title: Now the mountaineer was lazily walking along the sands, thinking of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the mountaineer was lazily walking along the sands, thinking of the new hut that he was building with the money that he had won on the day of his lucky jump. Who acts: mountaineer, boy, money. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 85

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Now the mountaineer was lazily walking along the sands, thinking of the new hut that he was building with the money that he had won on the day of his lucky jump.

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**Who acts:** mountaineer, boy, money · **What happens:** be, walk, think, build, win, jump · **To what, where:** sands

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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 (mountaineer, boy, money), 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:pg3027:36:85
# text = Now the mountaineer was lazily walking along the sands, thinking of the new hut that he was building with the money that he had won on the day of his lucky jump.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mountaineer	mountaineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	lazily	lazily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the mountaineer |  |  |  | now | lazily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  | the sands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along sand=Trajectory |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the new hut | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **build** | past · progressive | boy |  |  |  |  | with the money | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with money=Source |
| 5 | **win** | past · perfect | the money |  |  |  | day |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **jump** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom jump «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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