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title: With the first rays of the sun he set forth, and travelled through d… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With the first rays of the sun he set forth, and travelled through deserts and over mountains and across rivers, and all befell him which had befallen Kynon, till he stood under the leafless tree listening to the song of the birds. Who acts: sun, leafless tree, birds. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 75

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With the first rays of the sun he set forth, and travelled through deserts and over mountains and across rivers, and all befell him which had befallen Kynon, till he stood under the leafless tree listening to the song of the birds.

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**Who acts:** sun, leafless tree, birds · **What happens:** set, travel, befall, stand, listen, sing · **To what, where:** deserts, sun, Kynon, leafless tree

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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 (sun, leafless tree, birds), 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:pg3454:30:75
# text = With the first rays of the sun he set forth, and travelled through deserts and over mountains and across rivers, and all befell him which had befallen Kynon, till he stood under the leafless tree listening to the song of the birds.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	across	across	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	under	under	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	leafless	leafless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | with the first rays; of the sun; forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ray=Instrument |
| 2 | **travel** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  | deserts and mountains and rivers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through desert=Trajectory |
| 3 | **befall** | past |  | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive |  | Kynon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | past | sun |  |  | the leafless tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 6 | **listen** | gerund | the leafless tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the song of the birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
| 7 | **sing** |  | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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