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title: And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey’s end,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey’s end, took leave of him, and flew away back. Who acts: lightning, Prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 98

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And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey’s end, took leave of him, and flew away back.

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**Who acts:** lightning, Prince · **What happens:** fly, bring, take, fly away, journey · **To what, where:** distance, Prince, end, leave

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lightning, Prince), 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:pg540:13:98
# text = And after flying some distance she brought him to his journey’s end, took leave of him, and flew away back.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  | some distance |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | lightning | Prince |  |  | to Prince's journey's end |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to end=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | leave of Prince |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 4 | **fly away** | past |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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