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title: On he walked, across fields and lawn, and no one was there to keep h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On he walked, across fields and lawn, and no one was there to keep him out or let him into the castle; but the big hall-door was wide open. Who acts: youngest, one, big hall door. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 110

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On he walked, across fields and lawn, and no one was there to keep him out or let him into the castle; but the big hall-door was wide open.

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**Who acts:** youngest, one, big hall door · **What happens:** walk, be, keep out, let · **To what, where:** fields, youngest, castle

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, one, big hall door), 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:pg3454:10:110
# text = On he walked, across fields and lawn, and no one was there to keep him out or let him into the castle; but the big hall-door was wide open.
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	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | youngest *= young* |  |  | fields and lawn |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep out** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | youngest *= young* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | no one *not said here* | youngest *= young* |  | the castle |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the big hall door |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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