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title: Over mountains, through deserts, across rivers I went, till I reache… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Over mountains, through deserts, across rivers I went, till I reached a fair valley full of trees, with a path running by the side of a stream. Who acts: I, path. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 10

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Over mountains, through deserts, across rivers I went, till I reached a fair valley full of trees, with a path running by the side of a stream.

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**Who acts:** I, path · **What happens:** go, reach, run · **To what, where:** rivers, fair valley

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, path), 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:pg3454:30:10
# text = Over mountains, through deserts, across rivers I went, till I reached a fair valley full of trees, with a path running by the side of a stream.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | I | rivers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | I | a fair valley |  |  |  | with a path | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent valley=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | a path *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the side of a stream | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |

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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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