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title: When they had walked some distance they got upon the ice, and there… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had walked some distance they got upon the ice, and there they met a man in a carriage who was driving a black horse. Who acts: man, carriage. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 7

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When they had walked some distance they got upon the ice, and there they met a man in a carriage who was driving a black horse.

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**Who acts:** man, carriage · **What happens:** walk, get, meet, drive · **To what, where:** distance, man, carriage, black horse

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, carriage), 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:pg540:43:7
# text = When they had walked some distance they got upon the ice, and there they met a man in a carriage who was driving a black horse.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | man | some distance |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **get** | past | man | some distance *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the ice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **meet** | past | man | a man |  | a carriage; there |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **drive** | past · progressive | a carriage | a black horse |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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