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title: After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large gate, and through the bars he could see the streets of a town, and even the palace. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 30

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After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large gate, and through the bars he could see the streets of a town, and even the palace.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** travel, arrive, see · **To what, where:** length, streets, bars

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:538`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:7:30
# text = After travelling for many days, he arrived at length before a large gate, and through the bars he could see the streets of a town, and even the palace.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | prince |  |  | length | before a large gate |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | could | prince | the streets of a town and the palace |  | the bars |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer street=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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