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title: For many years they lived peacefully and happily in this sheltered p… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For many years they lived peacefully and happily in this sheltered place, never leaving it except to hunt the wild animals, which served them both for food and clothes. Who acts: friends, wild animals. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dep
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 105

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For many years they lived peacefully and happily in this sheltered place, never leaving it except to hunt the wild animals, which served them both for food and clothes.

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**Who acts:** friends, wild animals · **What happens:** live, shelter, not leave, hunt, serve · **To what, where:** sheltered place, place, wild animals, friends

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, wild animals), 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:pg640:24:105
# text = For many years they lived peacefully and happily in this sheltered place, never leaving it except to hunt the wild animals, which served them both for food and clothes.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	except	except	ADP	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	both	both	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  | this sheltered place | year | peacefully *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* | place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | the wild animals |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 5 | **serve** | past | the wild animals | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | for food and clothes; both *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme for food=Recipient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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