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title: On and on he went across the sandy waste, weeping and with burning b… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on he went across the sandy waste, weeping and with burning breast, till at length a hill rose into sight. Who acts: Prince, hill. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 42

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On and on he went across the sandy waste, weeping and with burning breast, till at length a hill rose into sight.

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**Who acts:** Prince, hill · **What happens:** go, burn, rise · **To what, where:** sandy waste, breast, length

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hill), 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:pg3282:1:42
# text = On and on he went across the sandy waste, weeping and with burning breast, till at length a hill rose into sight.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Prince |  |  | the sandy waste and weeping |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across waste=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | breast |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breast=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | past | a hill |  |  | length |  | into sight | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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