---
title: So he walked and rode the whole day, through a great wood where ther… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he walked and rode the whole day, through a great wood where there were many green places which gleamed very prettily among the trees. Who acts: Halvor, many green places. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/128/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/) / 128

# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 128

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So he walked and rode the whole day, through a great wood where there were many green places which gleamed very prettily among the trees.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Halvor, many green places · **What happens:** walk, ride, gleam · **To what, where:** great wood, trees

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Halvor, many green places), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:6:128
# text = So he walked and rode the whole day, through a great wood where there were many green places which gleamed very prettily among the trees.
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	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	prettily	prettily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | past | Halvor *not said here* |  |  | a great wood | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gleam** | past | many green places |  |  | the trees |  | prettily *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/127/)
- next →: [sentence 129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/129/)
- ↑ back to [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/)