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title: And now the youth rode onwards for a long, long time, over hill and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the youth rode onwards for a long, long time, over hill and dale, over rocky places and morasses, and then Dapplegrim began to listen again, and asked the youth if he heard anything now. Who acts: youth, Dapplegrim. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2,
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 70

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And now the youth rode onwards for a long, long time, over hill and dale, over rocky places and morasses, and then Dapplegrim began to listen again, and asked the youth if he heard anything now.

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**Who acts:** youth, Dapplegrim · **What happens:** ride, begin, listen, ask, hear · **To what, where:** hill, youth, anything

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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, Dapplegrim), 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:pg540:38:70
# text = And now the youth rode onwards for a long, long time, over hill and dale, over rocky places and morasses, and then Dapplegrim began to listen again, and asked the youth if he heard anything now.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	morasses	morass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
40	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obj	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the youth |  |  | hill and dale | now; time | over rocky places and morasses; onwards *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hill=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Dapplegrim *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the youth *not said here* | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient |
| 5 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | youth | anything |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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