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title: I walked along that path all the day, and in the evening I came to a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I walked along that path all the day, and in the evening I came to a castle in front of which stood two youths clothed in yellow, each grasping an ivory bow, with arrows made of the bones of the whale, and winged with peacock’s feathers. Who acts: I, front, each. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book»
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 11

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I walked along that path all the day, and in the evening I came to a castle in front of which stood two youths clothed in yellow, each grasping an ivory bow, with arrows made of the bones of the whale, and winged with peacock’s feathers.

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**Who acts:** I, front, each · **What happens:** walk, come, stand, clothe, grasp, make · **To what, where:** path, castle, two youths, ivory bow, arrows

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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, front, each), 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:pg3454:30:11
# text = I walked along that path all the day, and in the evening I came to a castle in front of which stood two youths clothed in yellow, each grasping an ivory bow, with arrows made of the bones of the whale, and winged with peacock’s feathers.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj	_	_
31	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
38	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | I |  |  | that path | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | I |  |  | a castle in front | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past | front | two youths |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus |
| 4 | **clothe** | participle |  | two youths *not said here* |  |  |  | in yellow | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in yellow=Theme |
| 5 | **grasp** | gerund | each | a ivory bow |  |  |  | with arrows | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bow=Experiencer with arrow=Instrument |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  | arrows *not said here* |  |  |  | of the bones of the whale | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **wing** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with peacock's feathers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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