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title: He traveled on for some days, and presently reached a fountain besid… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He traveled on for some days, and presently reached a fountain beside which an old woman all in rags sat upon a stone. Who acts: son, old woman. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 32

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He traveled on for some days, and presently reached a fountain beside which an old woman all in rags sat upon a stone.

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**Who acts:** son, old woman · **What happens:** travel on, reach, sit · **To what, where:** fountain

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, old woman), 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:pg503:2:32
# text = He traveled on for some days, and presently reached a fountain beside which an old woman all in rags sat upon a stone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | **travel on** | past | son |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | son *not said here* | a fountain |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | past | a old woman in rags |  |  | a fountain |  | upon a stone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside which=Location |

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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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