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title: They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all way… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all ways were tried, and all to no purpose. Who acts: king, vows. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 2

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They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all ways were tried, and all to no purpose.

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**Who acts:** king, vows · **What happens:** go, try · **To what, where:** vows, world, ways

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, vows), 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:pg503:10:2
# text = They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all ways were tried, and all to no purpose.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	vows	vow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pilgrimages	pilgrimage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | king | vows and pilgrimages |  | the world |  | to all waters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to water=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **try** | past · passive | vows and pilgrimages *not said here* | all ways |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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