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title: So these seven journeyed together till they reached a vast open plai… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So these seven journeyed together till they reached a vast open plain in which was a fair castle. Who acts: seven, comrade, vast open plain. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 78

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So these seven journeyed together till they reached a vast open plain in which was a fair castle.

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**Who acts:** seven, comrade, vast open plain · **What happens:** journey, reach, be · **To what, where:** vast open plain, fair castle

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven, comrade, vast open plain), 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:pg3454:38:78
# text = So these seven journeyed together till they reached a vast open plain in which was a fair castle.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | this seven |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | comrade | a vast open plain |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a vast open plain |  |  | a fair castle |  |  | tree rules |

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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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