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title: Meanwhile Catherine wandered on and on, without knowing very well wh… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile Catherine wandered on and on, without knowing very well where she was going, till at last she came to another town. Who acts: Catherine, mistress. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 97

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Meanwhile Catherine wandered on and on, without knowing very well where she was going, till at last she came to another town.

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**Who acts:** Catherine, mistress · **What happens:** wander, know, go, come · **To what, where:** last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, mistress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:1933`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:18:97
# text = Meanwhile Catherine wandered on and on, without knowing very well where she was going, till at last she came to another town.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | mistress |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | mistress |  |  | last |  | to another town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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