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title: No, it was over the river he rode, and across the hill and past the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No, it was over the river he rode, and across the hill and past the cottage of Miguel the vine-keeper, whose daughter, they say, is the prettiest girl in the whole country side, though she is too white for my taste,’ and then the landlady paused again, and glanced up at the farmer, to see how he was
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 13

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No, it was over the river he rode, and across the hill and past the cottage of Miguel the vine-keeper, whose daughter, they say, is the prettiest girl in the whole country side, though she is too white for my taste,’ and then the landlady paused again, and glanced up at the farmer, to see how he was taking it.

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**Who acts:** way, river, keeper, Daughter, landlady, my · **What happens:** be, ride, say, pause, glance up, see · **To what, where:** river, vine keeper, prettiest girl, hill, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, river, keeper, Daughter), 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:pg3454:19:13
# text = No, it was over the river he rode, and across the hill and past the cottage of Miguel the vine-keeper, whose daughter, they say, is the prettiest girl in the whole country side, though she is too white for my taste,’ and then the landlady paused again, and glanced up at the farmer, to see how he was taking it.
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	past	past	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Miguel	Miguel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	too	too	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	landlady	landlady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
57	again	again	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
61	up	up	ADP	RP	_	60	compound:prt	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
68	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	71	advmod	_	_
69	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
70	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
71	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	67	ccomp	_	_
72	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | way |  |  | the river |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | past | the river |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | keeper | the vine keeper and the vine keeper and the vine keeper's daughter's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent keeper=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the prettiest girl |  | the hill and the cottage of Miguel |  | in the whole country side | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Daughter |  |  |  |  | for my taste; white *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pause** | past | the landlady |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **glance up** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at the farmer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at farmer=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **take** | past · progressive | landlady | way |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 10 | **taste** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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