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title: It was a long way, and he was forced to rest often on the road, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a long way, and he was forced to rest often on the road, and so it happened that, one night, when he was sleeping in a city on the banks of the great river, a huge crocodile came silently up and made its way along a passage to the prince’s room. Who acts: farewell, long way, prince, it. A sen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 68

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It was a long way, and he was forced to rest often on the road, and so it happened that, one night, when he was sleeping in a city on the banks of the great river, a huge crocodile came silently up and made its way along a passage to the prince’s room.

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**Who acts:** farewell, long way, prince, it, huge crocodile · **What happens:** be, force, rest, happen, sleep, come · **To what, where:** long way, prince, road, that, city, way

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farewell, long way, prince, it), 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:pg3282:25:68
# text = It was a long way, and he was forced to rest often on the road, and so it happened that, one night, when he was sleeping in a city on the banks of the great river, a huge crocodile came silently up and made its way along a passage to the prince’s room.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
46	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	up	up	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
50	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	along	along	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	’s	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | farewell | a long way and one night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive | a long way and one night *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  | the road |  | often *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location |
| 4 | **happen** | past | it | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** | past · progressive | prince |  |  | a city |  | on the banks of the great river | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in city=Location |
| 6 | **come** | past | a huge crocodile |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | past | a huge crocodile *not said here* | farewell's way |  |  |  | along a passage to the prince's room | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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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