--- title: After walking through the forest for a couple of miles, they all thr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After walking through the forest for a couple of miles, they all three reached the palace, and by the king’s orders servants led the charcoal-burner and his wife into rooms filled with beautiful things such as they had never even dreamed of. Who acts: miles, servants, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miles, servants, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:7:47 # text = After walking through the forest for a couple of miles, they all three reached the palace, and by the king’s orders servants led the charcoal-burner and his wife into rooms filled with beautiful things such as they had never even dreamed of. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nsubj _ _ 15 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 25 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 charcoal charcoal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 burner burner NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 36 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 46 mark _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 44 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 dreamed dream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 acl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | gerund | miles *= mile* *not said here* | | | the forest | | for a couple of miles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | | 2 | **reach** | past | miles *= mile* | the palace | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | | 3 | **lead** | past | servants | the charcoal burner and king's wife | | rooms | | by the king's orders | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burner=Theme by order=Destination | | 4 | **fill** | participle | | rooms *not said here* | | | | with beautiful things | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with thing=Instrument | | 5 | **not** **dream** | past · perfect | servants *= servant* | beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 6 | **order** | | the king | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/48/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/7/)