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title: But when they got there they found that there was no way in which th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they got there they found that there was no way in which they could cross it, and the girl’s magic art seemed no longer to have any power. Who acts: fugitives, way, magic art. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 20

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But when they got there they found that there was no way in which they could cross it, and the girl’s magic art seemed no longer to have any power.

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**Who acts:** fugitives, way, magic art · **What happens:** get, find, be, cross, seem, have · **To what, where:** way, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fugitives, way, magic art), 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:pg640:26:20
# text = But when they got there they found that there was no way in which they could cross it, and the girl’s magic art seemed no longer to have any power.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
27	no	no	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | fugitives *= fugitive* |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | past | fugitives *= fugitive* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | no way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cross** | could | fugitives *= fugitive* | way |  |  |  | in no way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in which=Topic |
| 5 | **seem** | past | the girl's magic art |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | the girl's magic art *not said here* | any power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

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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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