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title: But even after he had done all this freedom appeared as far from him… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But even after he had done all this freedom appeared as far from him as ever, for between him and the open country was a high wall, and so smooth that not even a monkey could climb it. Who acts: Girouette, freedom, monkey. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 85

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But even after he had done all this freedom appeared as far from him as ever, for between him and the open country was a high wall, and so smooth that not even a monkey could climb it.

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**Who acts:** Girouette, freedom, monkey · **What happens:** do, appear, be, climb · **To what, where:** freedom

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Girouette, freedom, monkey), 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:pg5615:30:85
# text = But even after he had done all this freedom appeared as far from him as ever, for between him and the open country was a high wall, and so smooth that not even a monkey could climb it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | Girouette |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | past | all freedom |  |  |  | ever | from Girouette; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Girouette |  |  |  |  | for a high wall | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | could | a monkey | freedom |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=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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