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title: ‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the valley was a wooded glen;… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the valley was a wooded glen; then a race of men came and rooted it up. Who acts: I, valley, race, men. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 109

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‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the valley was a wooded glen; then a race of men came and rooted it up.

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**Who acts:** I, valley, race, men · **What happens:** come, say, wood, be, root up, race · **To what, where:** wooded glen, valley · **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 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, valley, race, men), 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:pg3454:39:109
# text = ‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the valley was a wooded glen; then a race of men came and rooted it up.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	glen	glen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	rooted	root	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | I |  |  |  |  | first, hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the valley | a wooded glen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | a race of men |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **root up** | past | a race of men *not said here* | valley |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **race** |  | men |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event 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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