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title: The girl asked her if she knew the way to the castle which lay east… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl asked her if she knew the way to the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon; but she said what the first old woman had said: “I know nothing about it, but that it is east of the sun and west of the moon, and that you will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get there
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 73

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The girl asked her if she knew the way to the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon; but she said what the first old woman had said: “I know nothing about it, but that it is east of the sun and west of the moon, and that you will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get there at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse to an old woman who lives the nearest to me: perhaps she may know where the castle is, and when you have got to her you may just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again.”

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**Who acts:** girl, castle, first old woman, way, woman, old woman · **What happens:** ask, know, lie, say, be, get · **To what, where:** woman, way, sun, nothing, long time, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, castle, first old woman, way), 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:pg503:4:73
# text = The girl asked her if she knew the way to the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon; but she said what the first old woman had said: “I know nothing about it, but that it is east of the sun and west of the moon, and that you will be a long time in getting to it, if ever you get there at all; but you shall have the loan of my horse to an old woman who lives the nearest to me: perhaps she may know where the castle is, and when you have got to her you may just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	east	east	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	west	west	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	obj	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
47	east	east	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
52	west	west	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
60	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
61	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	cop	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
65	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
66	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	64	advcl	_	_
67	to	to	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
70	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
71	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	73	advmod	_	_
72	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
73	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	66	advcl	_	_
74	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	73	advmod	_	_
75	at	at	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	73	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	81	punct	_	_
78	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	81	cc	_	_
79	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	81	nsubj	_	_
80	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	81	aux	_	_
81	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
82	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
83	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	81	obj	_	_
84	of	of	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
85	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	86	nmod:poss	_	_
86	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	nmod	_	_
87	to	to	ADP	IN	_	90	case	_	_
88	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	90	det	_	_
89	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	90	amod	_	_
90	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	nmod	_	_
91	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	92	nsubj	_	_
92	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	90	acl:relcl	_	_
93	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	94	det	_	_
94	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	92	obl	_	_
95	to	to	ADP	IN	_	96	case	_	_
96	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	92	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
97	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	101	punct	_	_
98	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	101	advmod	_	_
99	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	101	nsubj	_	_
100	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	101	aux	_	_
101	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	81	parataxis	_	_
102	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	105	advmod	_	_
103	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	104	det	_	_
104	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	105	nsubj	_	_
105	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	101	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
106	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	111	punct	_	_
107	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	111	cc	_	_
108	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	111	advmod	_	_
109	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	111	nsubj	_	_
110	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	111	aux	_	_
111	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	117	csubj	_	_
112	to	to	ADP	IN	_	113	case	_	_
113	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	111	obl	_	_
114	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	117	nsubj	_	_
115	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	117	aux	_	_
116	just	just	ADV	RB	_	117	advmod	_	_
117	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	101	conj	_	_
118	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	119	det	_	_
119	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	117	obj	_	_
120	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	123	case	_	_
121	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	123	det	_	_
122	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	123	amod	_	_
123	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	117	obl	_	_
124	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	125	cc	_	_
125	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	117	conj	_	_
126	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	125	obj	_	_
127	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	125	xcomp	_	_
128	home	home	ADV	RB	_	127	advmod	_	_
129	again	again	ADV	RB	_	127	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
130	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	81	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
131	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	81	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the girl |  | woman |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | girl | the way |  |  |  | to the castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the castle | the sun and the moon |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the first old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the girl *= girl* | nothing |  |  |  | about way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | way |  |  |  |  | of the sun and the moon; east *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | woman | a long time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund | woman *not said here* |  | way |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to it=Result |
| 10 | **get** *in a quote* | present | woman |  |  | all; there | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | woman | the loan of my horse |  |  |  | to a old woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient |
| 12 | **live** *in a quote* | present | a old woman | the nearest | the girl *= girl* |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **know** *in a quote* | may | woman |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 14 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 15 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | woman |  | woman |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result |
| 16 | **strike** *in a quote* | may | woman | the horse |  |  |  | beneath the left ear | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument |
| 17 | **bid** *in a quote* | infinitive | woman *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 18 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 19 | **loan** *in a quote* |  |  | my horse |  |  |  | to a old woman | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient to=obl |

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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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