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title: He rode on for some weeks without meeting with any adventures; but o… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode on for some weeks without meeting with any adventures; but one night when he was resting at an inn, he came across another traveller, with whom he fell into conversation, in the course of which the stranger inquired if he never played cards. Who acts: king, stranger. A sentence of «The Viole
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 4

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He rode on for some weeks without meeting with any adventures; but one night when he was resting at an inn, he came across another traveller, with whom he fell into conversation, in the course of which the stranger inquired if he never played cards.

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**Who acts:** king, stranger · **What happens:** ride on, meet, rest, come, fall, inquire · **To what, where:** inn, conversation, cards

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, stranger), 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:pg641:42:4
# text = He rode on for some weeks without meeting with any adventures; but one night when he was resting at an inn, he came across another traveller, with whom he fell into conversation, in the course of which the stranger inquired if he never played cards.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	across	across	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
49	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride on** | past | king |  |  |  | night; week |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with any adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | past · progressive | king |  |  | a inn |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at inn=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | king |  |  |  |  | across *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall** | past | king |  |  | conversation |  | in the course | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in course=Location |
| 6 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  | of the course | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of which=Recipient |
| 7 | **not** **play** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | king | cards |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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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