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title: ‘Yes; and in order to get there I have come from a country so far of… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes; and in order to get there I have come from a country so far off that it has taken me three months’ hard riding to travel as far as this.’ A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 71

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‘Yes; and in order to get there I have come from a country so far off that it has taken me three months’ hard riding to travel as far as this.’

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**What happens:** come, take, travel · **To what, where:** I, country, it

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3454:26:71
# text = ‘Yes; and in order to get there I have come from a country so far off that it has taken me three months’ hard riding to travel as far as this.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	8	mark	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive · perfect · passive |  | I |  | a country |  | hard riding *obl*; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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