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title: For months and months he wandered about, first in this direction and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For months and months he wandered about, first in this direction and then in that, without finding any traces of the dragon or his captive. Who acts: servant. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 47

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For months and months he wandered about, first in this direction and then in that, without finding any traces of the dragon or his captive.

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**Who acts:** servant · **What happens:** wander, find · **To what, where:** direction, traces

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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 (servant), 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:pg641:7:47
# text = For months and months he wandered about, first in this direction and then in that, without finding any traces of the dragon or his captive.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | servant |  |  | this direction | month | about, first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | servant *not said here* | any traces of the dragon or dragon's captive |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |

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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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