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title: At the end of three months he came to the entrance of a huge forest,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of three months he came to the entrance of a huge forest, which looked as if it had never been trodden by human foot before, and which seemed to stretch out indefinitely. Who acts: King, huge forest, human foot. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Serva
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 59

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At the end of three months he came to the entrance of a huge forest, which looked as if it had never been trodden by human foot before, and which seemed to stretch out indefinitely.

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**Who acts:** King, huge forest, human foot · **What happens:** come, look, not tread, seem, stretch out · **To what, where:** end, evil

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huge forest, human foot), 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:pg640:30:59
# text = At the end of three months he came to the entrance of a huge forest, which looked as if it had never been trodden by human foot before, and which seemed to stretch out indefinitely.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	trodden	tread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	indefinitely	indefinitely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | King |  |  |  | at the end of three months | to the entrance of a huge forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to entrance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | a huge forest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **tread** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | human foot | evil |  |  |  | before *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **stretch out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | indefinitely *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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