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title: He soon came to it, or rather to the wide and deep moat which surrou… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He soon came to it, or rather to the wide and deep moat which surrounded it without a single bridge by which to cross. Who acts: griffin, wide moat. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 85

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He soon came to it, or rather to the wide and deep moat which surrounded it without a single bridge by which to cross.

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**Who acts:** griffin, wide moat · **What happens:** come, surround, cross · **To what, where:** church

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, wide moat), 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:pg5615:2279`): 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:pg5615:22:85
# text = He soon came to it, or rather to the wide and deep moat which surrounded it without a single bridge by which to cross.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | griffin |  |  | church |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **surround** | past | the wide moat | church |  |  |  | without a single bridge | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **cross** | to-infinitive | the wide moat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a single bridge | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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