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title: He went far and wide to inquire for that country from whence she had… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He went far and wide to inquire for that country from whence she had said that she came, but there was no one who could tell him where it lay, so he was forced to have patience once more. Who acts: Prince, daughter, one, sermon. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, par
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 56

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He went far and wide to inquire for that country from whence she had said that she came, but there was no one who could tell him where it lay, so he was forced to have patience once more.

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**Who acts:** Prince, daughter, one, sermon · **What happens:** go, inquire, say, come, be, tell · **To what, where:** Prince, patience · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, daughter, one, sermon), 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:pg540:30:56
# text = He went far and wide to inquire for that country from whence she had said that she came, but there was no one who could tell him where it lay, so he was forced to have patience once more.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	iobj	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	advmod	_	_
41	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | far, wide *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for that country | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | daughter |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past | no one |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | no one |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **lie** | past | sermon |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **force** | past · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **have** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | patience |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |

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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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