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title: So he went on with winged feet till he came to the shores of a great… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went on with winged feet till he came to the shores of a great lake, with a lovely island in the middle of it; while on the bank of the lake was a canoe of glittering stone, and in the canoe were two shining paddles. Who acts: thought, canoe, two shining paddles. A sentence of «The Yellow Fair
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 31

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So he went on with winged feet till he came to the shores of a great lake, with a lovely island in the middle of it; while on the bank of the lake was a canoe of glittering stone, and in the canoe were two shining paddles.

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**Who acts:** thought, canoe, two shining paddles · **What happens:** go on, wing, come, be, glitter, shine · **To what, where:** shores, canoe, bank, stone

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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, canoe, two shining paddles), 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:pg640:28:31
# text = So he went on with winged feet till he came to the shores of a great lake, with a lovely island in the middle of it; while on the bank of the lake was a canoe of glittering stone, and in the canoe were two shining paddles.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
41	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
47	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
49	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	amod	_	_
50	paddles	paddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | thought |  |  |  |  | with winged feet | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | thought |  |  | the shores of a great lake |  | with a lovely island in the middle of middle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a canoe |  | the bank of the lake |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | a canoe *not said here* | stone |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past | two shining paddles |  |  | the canoe |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location |
| 7 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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 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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