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title: Though he knew it would take some hours to get through the forest, h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Though he knew it would take some hours to get through the forest, he was so anxious to be at his journey’s end that he resolved to go on; but night overtook him, and the deep snow and bitter frost made it impossible for his horse to carry him any further. Who acts: merchant, it, night, deep snow. A
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 29

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Though he knew it would take some hours to get through the forest, he was so anxious to be at his journey’s end that he resolved to go on; but night overtook him, and the deep snow and bitter frost made it impossible for his horse to carry him any further.

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**Who acts:** merchant, it, night, deep snow · **What happens:** know, take, get, be, resolve, go on · **To what, where:** forest, end, merchant, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, it, night, deep snow), 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:pg503:14:29
# text = Though he knew it would take some hours to get through the forest, he was so anxious to be at his journey’s end that he resolved to go on; but night overtook him, and the deep snow and bitter frost made it impossible for his horse to carry him any further.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	any	any	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | would | it |  |  |  | hour |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through forest=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | at merchant's journey's end |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **resolve** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go on** | to-infinitive | merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **overtake** | past | night | merchant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** | past | the deep snow and bitter frost | town |  |  |  | for merchant's horse; impossible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for horse=Beneficiary |
| 10 | **carry** | to-infinitive | the deep snow and bitter frost *not said here* | merchant |  |  |  | far *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 11 | **journey** |  | merchant |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 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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