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title: Some way farther along the road he came upon a man who had never wor… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some way farther along the road he came upon a man who had never worn any trousers, and who was trying to put on a pair. Who acts: way. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 36

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Some way farther along the road he came upon a man who had never worn any trousers, and who was trying to put on a pair.

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**Who acts:** way · **What happens:** come, not wear, try, put · **To what, where:** man, pair

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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:pg540:28:36
# text = Some way farther along the road he came upon a man who had never worn any trousers, and who was trying to put on a pair.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	farther	farther	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | some way along the road |  |  |  |  | upon a man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location |
| 2 | **not** **wear** | past · perfect · passive |  | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a pair |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination |

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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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