--- title: After they had gone a long, long way they came to a little house, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After they had gone a long, long way they came to a little house, and when the girl looked into it she found it was quite empty, and she thought ‘perhaps we might stay and live here.’ Who acts: depths, girl, house, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (depths, girl, house, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg540:10:36 # text = After they had gone a long, long way they came to a little house, and when the girl looked into it she found it was quite empty, and she thought ‘perhaps we might stay and live here.’ 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 quite quite ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 41 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | depths *= depth* | a long long way | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | depths *= depth* | a long long way *not said here* | | | | to a little house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | the girl | | | | | into house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme | | 4 | **find** | past | girl | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | house | | | | | empty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | girl | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **stay** | might | we | | | | | perhaps *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **live** | infinitive | we *not said here* | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/37/) - ↑ back to [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/)