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title: He had a long way to go, and had to pass through a great dark forest. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a long way to go, and had to pass through a great dark forest. Who acts: Klaus. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 19

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He had a long way to go, and had to pass through a great dark forest.

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**Who acts:** Klaus · **What happens:** have, go, pass · **To what, where:** long way, great dark forest

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Klaus), 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:pg640:41:19
# text = He had a long way to go, and had to pass through a great dark forest.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Klaus | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Klaus *not said here* | a long way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | Klaus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Klaus *not said here* |  |  | a great dark forest |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |

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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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