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title: So he went on shore, and it was a delightful country; whithersoever… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went on shore, and it was a delightful country; whithersoever he went there were wide plains with fields and meadows, but as for people, there were none to be seen. Who acts: wind, skipper. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 10

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So he went on shore, and it was a delightful country; whithersoever he went there were wide plains with fields and meadows, but as for people, there were none to be seen.

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**Who acts:** wind, skipper · **What happens:** go, be, see · **To what, where:** shore, delightful country, wide plains, none

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, skipper), 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:pg540:6:10
# text = So he went on shore, and it was a delightful country; whithersoever he went there were wide plains with fields and meadows, but as for people, there were none to be seen.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	whithersoever	whithersoever	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
33	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | wind |  |  | shore |  | with fields and meadows | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with field=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | past | skipper | a delightful country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | wind | wide plains *not said here* |  | there |  | whithersoever *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plain=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | wide plains |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive |  | none |  |  |  | as people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as people=Attribute |

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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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