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title: In these wanderings she met with even greater difficulties than befo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In these wanderings she met with even greater difficulties than before, for she came upon one mountain of flints after another, out of which tongues of fire would flame up; she passed through woods which had never been trodden by human foot, and had to cross fields of ice and avalanches of snow. Who
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 147

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In these wanderings she met with even greater difficulties than before, for she came upon one mountain of flints after another, out of which tongues of fire would flame up; she passed through woods which had never been trodden by human foot, and had to cross fields of ice and avalanches of snow.

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**Who acts:** Princess, human foot, snow · **What happens:** meet, come, pass, not tread, have, cross · **To what, where:** wanderings, tongues, woods, fields

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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, human foot, snow), 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:pg540:12:147
# text = In these wanderings she met with even greater difficulties than before, for she came upon one mountain of flints after another, out of which tongues of fire would flame up; she passed through woods which had never been trodden by human foot, and had to cross fields of ice and avalanches of snow.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	flints	flint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
32	up	up	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl:relcl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	avalanches	avalanche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Princess |  |  | this wanderings |  | with greater difficulties | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with difficulty=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | Princess |  |  | which tongues of fire |  | upon one mountain of flints after another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out tongue=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pass** | past | Princess |  |  | woods |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wood=Location |
| 4 | **not** **tread** | past · perfect · passive | human foot | woods |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cross** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | fields of ice and avalanches of snow |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient |
| 7 | **avalanche** |  | snow |  |  |  |  |  | nom avalanche «event intransitive»: of=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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