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title: A little farther he meets his sweetheart, my friend River, wandering… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little farther he meets his sweetheart, my friend River, wandering quietly in the sunshine. Who acts: Drakestail. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 21

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A little farther he meets his sweetheart, my friend River, wandering quietly in the sunshine.

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**Who acts:** Drakestail · **What happens:** meet, wonder · **To what, where:** sweetheart, sunshine

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail), 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:pg540:31:21
# text = A little farther he meets his sweetheart, my friend River, wandering quietly in the sunshine.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | Drakestail | Drakestail's sweetheart |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Drakestail *not said here* |  |  | the sunshine |  | quietly *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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