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title: So they travelled on through many more different kinds of country, a… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 4

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So they travelled on through many more different kinds of country, and then Dapplegrim neighed for the third time; but before he could ask the youth if he heard anything, there was such a neighing on the other side of the heath that the youth thought that hills and rocks would be rent in pieces.

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**Who acts:** they, Dapplegrim, youth · **What happens:** travel on, neigh, ask, hear, be, think · **To what, where:** many different kinds, youth, anything, other side, heath, hills · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (they, Dapplegrim, youth), 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:pg540:39:4
# text = So they travelled on through many more different kinds of country, and then Dapplegrim neighed for the third time; but before he could ask the youth if he heard anything, there was such a neighing on the other side of the heath that the youth thought that hills and rocks would be rent in pieces.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	neighed	neigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
32	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
36	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	37	det:predet	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
38	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
51	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	rent	rend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	ccomp	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel on** | past | they |  |  | many different kinds of country |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through kind=Trajectory |
| 2 | **neigh** | past | Dapplegrim |  |  |  | then; time |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | Dapplegrim | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Dapplegrim | anything |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **neigh** | gerund |  |  |  | the other side of the heath |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the youth | the heath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent heath=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 8 | **rend** | would · passive |  | hills and rocks |  | pieces |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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