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title: She travelled through many lands and saw many cities, and went throu… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She travelled through many lands and saw many cities, and went through many hardships before she got to the town where the heathen king lived. Who acts: idea, heathen king. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 17

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She travelled through many lands and saw many cities, and went through many hardships before she got to the town where the heathen king lived.

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**Who acts:** idea, heathen king · **What happens:** travel, see, go, get, live · **To what, where:** many lands, many cities, many hardships

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, heathen king), 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:pg641:8:17
# text = She travelled through many lands and saw many cities, and went through many hardships before she got to the town where the heathen king lived.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hardships	hardship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | idea |  |  | many lands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | idea *not said here* | many cities |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | idea *not said here* |  |  | many hardships |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through hardship=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **get** | past | idea |  |  |  |  | to the town *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result |
| 5 | **live** | past | the heathen king |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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