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title: Very soon he noticed with wonder, that neither rocks nor trees barre… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon he noticed with wonder, that neither rocks nor trees barred his path. Who acts: thought, rocks. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 29

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Very soon he noticed with wonder, that neither rocks nor trees barred his path.

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**Who acts:** thought, rocks · **What happens:** notice, bar · **To what, where:** that

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, rocks), 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:pg640:28:29
# text = Very soon he noticed with wonder, that neither rocks nor trees barred his path.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	barred	bar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | thought |  |  |  |  | with wonder; soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **bar** | past | neither rocks nor trees | that |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=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 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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