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title: On and on she wandered over nine seas and across nine continents; th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on she wandered over nine seas and across nine continents; through forests with trees whose stems were as thick as beer-barrels; stumbling and knocking herself against the fallen branches, then picking herself up and going on; the boughs of the trees hit her face, and the shrubs tore her hand
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 115

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On and on she wandered over nine seas and across nine continents; through forests with trees whose stems were as thick as beer-barrels; stumbling and knocking herself against the fallen branches, then picking herself up and going on; the boughs of the trees hit her face, and the shrubs tore her hands, but on she went, and never looked back.

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**Who acts:** fate, forests, boughs, shrubs, trees · **What happens:** wander, be, stumble, knock, fall, pick up · **To what, where:** nine seas, fate, fallen branches, face, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fate, forests, boughs, shrubs), 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:pg540:12:115
# text = On and on she wandered over nine seas and across nine continents; through forests with trees whose stems were as thick as beer-barrels; stumbling and knocking herself against the fallen branches, then picking herself up and going on; the boughs of the trees hit her face, and the shrubs tore her hands, but on she went, and never looked back.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	across	across	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	against	against	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
38	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
39	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
67	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
68	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	_
69	back	back	ADV	RB	_	68	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | fate | nine seas and nine continents |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | forests with trees |  |  |  |  | as beer barrels; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stumble** | gerund | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **knock** | gerund | fate *not said here* | fate |  | the fallen branches |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme against branch=Destination |
| 5 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pick up** | gerund | fate *not said here* | fate |  |  | then |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
| 7 | **go on** | gerund | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **hit** | past | the boughs of the trees | fate's face |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Co-Theme |
| 9 | **tore** | past | the shrubs | fate's hands |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **go** | past | fate |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **not** **look back** | past | fate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 12 | **stem** |  | trees |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication 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 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.

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