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title: They met with no further adventures worth speaking of, and presently… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They met with no further adventures worth speaking of, and presently found themselves within two leagues of the harbour for which they were making. Who acts: pages. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 30

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They met with no further adventures worth speaking of, and presently found themselves within two leagues of the harbour for which they were making.

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**Who acts:** pages · **What happens:** meet, speak, find, make · **To what, where:** further adventures, pages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pages), 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:pg7277:15:30
# text = They met with no further adventures worth speaking of, and presently found themselves within two leagues of the harbour for which they were making.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | pages *= page* | no further adventures |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | pages *= page* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | pages *= page* *not said here* | pages *= page* |  |  |  | within two leagues of the harbour; presently *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past · progressive | pages *= page* |  |  |  |  | for the harbour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for which=Asset |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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