--- title: Off they went again, and before they had gone far they met a man str… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Off they went again, and before they had gone far they met a man striding towards them whose steps were so long that while one foot was on the north of the island the other was right down in the south. Who acts: trees, man, one foot. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, man, one foot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:19:91 # text = Off they went again, and before they had gone far they met a man striding towards them whose steps were so long that while one foot was on the north of the island the other was right down in the south. 1 Off off ADP IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 11 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 striding stride VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 towards towards ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 advcl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 right right ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 down down ADV RB _ 31 conj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | trees *= tree* | | | | again | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past · perfect | trees *= tree* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | past | trees *= tree* | a man | | | | far *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | | 4 | **stride** | gerund | a man *not said here* | steps | | | | towards trees *= tree* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | one foot | | | the north | | of the island | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | one foot *not said here* | | | the south | | down, right *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/92/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/19/)