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title: But soon they came to a gold wood more lovely far than the other two… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But soon they came to a gold wood more lovely far than the other two, and again Petru’s companions pleaded with him to ride through it quickly, and to leave the flowers alone. Who acts: flowers, companions. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 44

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But soon they came to a gold wood more lovely far than the other two, and again Petru’s companions pleaded with him to ride through it quickly, and to leave the flowers alone.

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**Who acts:** flowers, companions · **What happens:** come, plead, ride, leave · **To what, where:** gold wood, wood, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, companions), 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:pg641:20:44
# text = But soon they came to a gold wood more lovely far than the other two, and again Petru’s companions pleaded with him to ride through it quickly, and to leave the flowers alone.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | flowers *= flower* |  |  | a gold wood |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | Petru's companions |  |  |  | again | with Petru | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | to-infinitive | Petru's companions *not said here* |  |  | wood |  | quickly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through it=Trajectory |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Petru's companions *not said here* | the flowers |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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