--- title: So saying she led him back into the wood by a different path, and he… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So saying she led him back into the wood by a different path, and he saw that it was full of men and women; their faces were pale and haggard, and they ran hither and thither seeking madly upon the ground, or in the air, starting at every sound, pushing and trampling upon one another in their franti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/48/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/) / 48 # The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 48 So saying she led him back into the wood by a different path, and he saw that it was full of men and women; their faces were pale and haggard, and they ran hither and thither seeking madly upon the ground, or in the air, starting at every sound, pushing and trampling upon one another in their frantic eagerness to find the way to the Golden Rock. **Who acts:** dig, path, faces · **What happens:** say, lead back, see, be, run, seek · **To what, where:** dig, wood, ground, sound, frantic eagerness, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dig, path, faces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:15:48 # text = So saying she led him back into the wood by a different path, and he saw that it was full of men and women; their faces were pale and haggard, and they ran hither and thither seeking madly upon the ground, or in the air, starting at every sound, pushing and trampling upon one another in their frantic eagerness to find the way to the Golden Rock. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 nsubj _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 haggard haggard NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 37 hither hither ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 thither thither ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 seeking seek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 41 madly madly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 upon upon ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 52 at at ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 54 det _ _ 54 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 51 conj _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 trampling trampling NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 conj _ _ 59 upon upon ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 56 obl _ _ 61 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 60 fixed _ _ 62 in in ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 64 frantic frantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 amod _ _ 65 eagerness eagerness NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 66 to to PART TO _ 67 mark _ _ 67 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 advcl _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obj _ _ 70 to to ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 72 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 amod _ _ 73 Rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lead back** | past | | dig | | the wood | | by a different path; in the air | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into wood=Destination | | 3 | **see** | past | dig | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | path | | | | | of men and women; full *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | women's faces | | | | | pale *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **run** | past | faces *= face* | | | | | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **seek** | gerund | faces *= face* *not said here* | | | the ground | | madly, thither *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | | 8 | **start** | gerund | | | | every sound | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 9 | **push** | gerund | | | | faces's frantic eagerness | | upon one | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent upon one=Trajectory | | 10 | **find** | to-infinitive | | the way | | | | to the Golden Rock | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/49/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/15/)