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title: Over the woods and fields they went, and at length they reached a ki… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Over the woods and fields they went, and at length they reached a king's palace surrounded by beautiful gardens. Who acts: fields. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 86

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Over the woods and fields they went, and at length they reached a king's palace surrounded by beautiful gardens.

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**Who acts:** fields · **What happens:** go, reach, surround · **To what, where:** woods, palace, length

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fields), 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:pg3027:39:86
# text = Over the woods and fields they went, and at length they reached a king's palace surrounded by beautiful gardens.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | fields *= field* |  |  | the woods and fields |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **reach** | past | fields *= field* | a king's palace |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent palace=Theme at length=Asset |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  | a king's palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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