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title: He went out, and, having run over a vast deal of ground, both on thi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He went out, and, having run over a vast deal of ground, both on this side and that, he came at last into the very road where the poor children were, and not above a hundred paces from their father’s house. Who acts: ogre, poor children. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thu
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 117

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He went out, and, having run over a vast deal of ground, both on this side and that, he came at last into the very road where the poor children were, and not above a hundred paces from their father’s house.

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**Who acts:** ogre, poor children · **What happens:** go out, have, come, be, deal · **To what, where:** run, vast deal, last, house, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, poor children), 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:pg503:33:117
# text = He went out, and, having run over a vast deal of ground, both on this side and that, he came at last into the very road where the poor children were, and not above a hundred paces from their father’s house.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
39	above	above	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | ogre *not said here* | run |  | a vast deal of ground and this side |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | ogre |  |  | last |  | into the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into road=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the poor children |  |  | paces's father's house |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | ground |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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