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title: So he got up and walked on, and before he had gone very far was luck… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he got up and walked on, and before he had gone very far was lucky enough to find a little side-path, where he could trace men’s footsteps. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 183

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So he got up and walked on, and before he had gone very far was lucky enough to find a little side-path, where he could trace men’s footsteps.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** get up, walk on, go, be, find, trace · **To what, where:** little side path, footsteps

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg641:4:183
# text = So he got up and walked on, and before he had gone very far was lucky enough to find a little side-path, where he could trace men’s footsteps.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	trace	trace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **walk on** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, far, lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | a little side path |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic |
| 6 | **trace** | could | sun | men's footsteps |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=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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