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title: Then he blew his horn and inquired whether any of them knew where Wh… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he blew his horn and inquired whether any of them knew where Whiteland lay, but there was not one who knew that. Who acts: Whiteland, any. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 53

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Then he blew his horn and inquired whether any of them knew where Whiteland lay, but there was not one who knew that.

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**Who acts:** Whiteland, any · **What happens:** blow, inquire, know, lie, not be · **To what, where:** horn, one, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whiteland, any), 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:pg540:26:53
# text = Then he blew his horn and inquired whether any of them knew where Whiteland lay, but there was not one who knew that.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	Whiteland	Whiteland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	advcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | Whiteland | Whiteland's horn |  |  | then |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Whiteland *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | past | any |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie** | past | Whiteland |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past |  | one |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | past |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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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