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title: Sometimes she would rest for a little on a mountain, and then start… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she would rest for a little on a mountain, and then start afresh always farther and farther on. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 130

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Sometimes she would rest for a little on a mountain, and then start afresh always farther and farther on.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** rest, start · **To what, where:** mountain, afresh

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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 (Princess), 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:pg540:12:130
# text = Sometimes she would rest for a little on a mountain, and then start afresh always farther and farther on.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	afresh	afresh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | would | Princess |  |  | a mountain |  | for a little; sometimes *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on mountain=Location |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | Princess *not said here* | afresh |  |  | then | far *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afresh=Eventuality |

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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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