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title: So the next morning he got up early, and put some food in his pouch… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next morning he got up early, and put some food in his pouch and slung an extra skin over his shoulders, for he knew not how long his journey would take, nor what sort of country he would have to go through. Who acts: light, journey, sort. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 9

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So the next morning he got up early, and put some food in his pouch and slung an extra skin over his shoulders, for he knew not how long his journey would take, nor what sort of country he would have to go through.

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**Who acts:** light, journey, sort · **What happens:** get up, put, sling, not know, take, have · **To what, where:** food, pouch, extra skin, shoulders, country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (light, journey, sort), 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:pg640:28:9
# text = So the next morning he got up early, and put some food in his pouch and slung an extra skin over his shoulders, for he knew not how long his journey would take, nor what sort of country he would have to go through.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	44	cc	_	_
38	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	39	det	_	_
39	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	through	through	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | light |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | light *not said here* | some food |  | light's pouch |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme in pouch=Destination |
| 3 | **sling** | past | light *not said here* | a extra skin |  | light's shoulders |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skin=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past | light |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **take** | would | light's journey |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | would | what sort of country |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go through** | to-infinitive | what sort of country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **journey** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | country |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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