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title: I see I must go further,’ and he walked on to Pont-aven, a pretty li… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I see I must go further,’ and he walked on to Pont-aven, a pretty little town built on the bank of a river. Who acts: I, fortune. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 100

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I see I must go further,’ and he walked on to Pont-aven, a pretty little town built on the bank of a river.

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**Who acts:** I, fortune · **What happens:** see, go, walk on, build · **To what, where:** Pont aven, little town, bank · **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 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fortune), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:3004`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:33:100
# text = I see I must go further,’ and he walked on to Pont-aven, a pretty little town built on the bank of a river.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	further	further	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Pont	Pont	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	aven	aven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
22	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | must | I |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk on** | past | fortune |  | Pont aven |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to aven=Result |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | a little town *not said here* |  | the bank of a river |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on bank=Source |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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