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title: On he journeyed, over hills, and through rivers till he reached a wi… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On he journeyed, over hills, and through rivers till he reached a wide plain, and never a glimpse did he catch of the falcon. Who acts: face. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 39

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On he journeyed, over hills, and through rivers till he reached a wide plain, and never a glimpse did he catch of the falcon.

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**Who acts:** face · **What happens:** journey, reach, catch · **To what, where:** hills, wide plain

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face), 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:pg3027:7:39
# text = On he journeyed, over hills, and through rivers till he reached a wide plain, and never a glimpse did he catch of the falcon.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | face |  |  | hills |  | through rivers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | past | face | a wide plain |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past · do-support | face |  |  |  |  | of the falcon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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