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title: After he had been walking for some time he met an old white-bearded… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After he had been walking for some time he met an old white-bearded man who was coming along the footpath. Who acts: couple, old bearded man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 89

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After he had been walking for some time he met an old white-bearded man who was coming along the footpath.

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**Who acts:** couple, old bearded man · **What happens:** walk, meet, come · **To what, where:** old bearded man, footpath

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, old bearded man), 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:pg3027:38:89
# text = After he had been walking for some time he met an old white-bearded man who was coming along the footpath.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	along	along	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	footpath	footpath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect · progressive | couple |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | couple | a old bearded man |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | a old bearded man |  |  | the footpath |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along footpath=Initial\_Location |

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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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