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title: He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns, mountains, valleys, and plains, but always pushing south, where every day the sun seemed hotter and more brilliant. Who acts: horse, sun. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 36

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He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns, mountains, valleys, and plains, but always pushing south, where every day the sun seemed hotter and more brilliant.

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**Who acts:** horse, sun · **What happens:** travel, pass, push, seem · **To what, where:** plains, way

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, sun), 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:pg540:40:36
# text = He travelled in this way for many weeks, passing by villages, towns, mountains, valleys, and plains, but always pushing south, where every day the sun seemed hotter and more brilliant.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	25	advmod	_	_
25	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
26	south	south	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
34	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | horse | plains |  | this way for many weeks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by villages and towns and mountains and valleys | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by village=Location |
| 3 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | always, south *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the sun |  |  |  | day | hot *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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