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title: All this time the young man was riding through the world, and when t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time the young man was riding through the world, and when the seven years and seven months were over he came back to the town where the princess lived--only a few days before the wedding. Who acts: young man, man, princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 33

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All this time the young man was riding through the world, and when the seven years and seven months were over he came back to the town where the princess lived--only a few days before the wedding.

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**Who acts:** young man, man, princess · **What happens:** ride, come back, live · **To what, where:** world, town

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, princess), 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:pg5615:23:33
# text = All this time the young man was riding through the world, and when the seven years and seven months were over he came back to the town where the princess lived--only a few days before the wedding.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past · progressive | the young man |  |  | the world | time |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through world=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come back** | past | man |  |  | the town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **live** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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