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title: The youth seated himself on him, and once more they went their way,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth seated himself on him, and once more they went their way, and for each hop that Dapplegrim made, down went the hill fifteen ells into the earth, and so they went on until there was no hill left for the King to see. Who acts: youth, shoes, Dapplegrim, hill. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 51

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The youth seated himself on him, and once more they went their way, and for each hop that Dapplegrim made, down went the hill fifteen ells into the earth, and so they went on until there was no hill left for the King to see.

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**Who acts:** youth, shoes, Dapplegrim, hill · **What happens:** seat, go, make, go on, be, leave · **To what, where:** youth, way, hop, hill, earth

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (youth, shoes, Dapplegrim, hill), 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:pg540:38:51
# text = The youth seated himself on him, and once more they went their way, and for each hop that Dapplegrim made, down went the hill fifteen ells into the earth, and so they went on until there was no hill left for the King to see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	on	on	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	41	expl	_	_
41	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
44	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | the youth | youth |  |  |  | on King | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 2 | **go** | past | shoes *= shoe* | shoes's way |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Dapplegrim | each hop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Product |
| 4 | **go** | past | the youth *not said here* | the hill |  | the earth |  | for each hop; fifteen ells *obl:unmarked*; down *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme |
| 5 | **go on** | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past | no hill |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | participle |  | no hill *not said here* |  |  |  | for the King | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for king=Recipient |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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