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title: They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without food or drink, and without coming across a single house, and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood. Who acts: Scotsman, wild beasts. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Bo
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 3

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They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without food or drink, and without coming across a single house, and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood.

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**Who acts:** Scotsman, wild beasts · **What happens:** go, travel, come, have, climb up, be · **To what, where:** great forest, single house, trees, wood, wild beasts

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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 (Scotsman, wild beasts), 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:pg640:45:3
# text = They went on travelling for two days through a great forest, without food or drink, and without coming across a single house, and every night they had to climb up into the trees through fear of the wild beasts that were in the wood.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	up	up	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Scotsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | gerund | Scotsman *not said here* |  |  | a great forest | day | without food or drink | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | Scotsman *not said here* |  |  | a single house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | Scotsman |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **climb up** | to-infinitive | Scotsman *not said here* |  |  | the trees |  | through fear of the wild beasts | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tree=Initial\_Location through fear=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | the wild beasts |  |  | the wood |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fear** |  |  | the wild beasts |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling 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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