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title: As soon as day came he also saw the castle, and set out towards it;… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as day came he also saw the castle, and set out towards it; but when he reached it he could see no signs of fire or living being about it. Who acts: day, Englishman. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 24

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As soon as day came he also saw the castle, and set out towards it; but when he reached it he could see no signs of fire or living being about it.

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**Who acts:** day, Englishman · **What happens:** come, see, set out, reach, live, sign · **To what, where:** castle, signs, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, Englishman), 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:pg640:45:24
# text = As soon as day came he also saw the castle, and set out towards it; but when he reached it he could see no signs of fire or living being about it.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	xcomp	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | day |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Englishman | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set out** | infinitive | Englishman *not said here* |  |  | castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **reach** | past | Englishman | castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | could | Englishman | no signs of fire |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | Englishman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sign** |  |  | fire |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication 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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