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title: They rode on their way for several miles, but the day was hot, and t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They rode on their way for several miles, but the day was hot, and the sun’s rays smote fiercely on them, so that the Princess was soon overcome by thirst again. Who acts: ornaments, day, rays, thirst. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 14

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They rode on their way for several miles, but the day was hot, and the sun’s rays smote fiercely on them, so that the Princess was soon overcome by thirst again.

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**Who acts:** ornaments, day, rays, thirst, sun · **What happens:** ride, be, smite, overcome, ray · **To what, where:** way, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ornaments, day, rays, thirst), 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:pg503:37:14
# text = They rode on their way for several miles, but the day was hot, and the sun’s rays smote fiercely on them, so that the Princess was soon overcome by thirst again.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | ornaments *= ornament* |  |  | ornaments's way for several miles |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the day |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smite** | past | the sun's rays |  |  |  |  | on ornaments *= ornament*; fiercely *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on they=Patient |
| 4 | **overcome** | past · passive | thirst | the Princess |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 5 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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