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title: After journeying for two whole months they came at last to Trelintin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After journeying for two whole months they came at last to Trelintin, the capital of the Princess Sabella’s kingdom, and here he heard dismal stories about the Ice Mountain, and how none of those who had attempted to climb it had ever come back. Who acts: treasures, One, none, name. A sentence of «T
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 55

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After journeying for two whole months they came at last to Trelintin, the capital of the Princess Sabella’s kingdom, and here he heard dismal stories about the Ice Mountain, and how none of those who had attempted to climb it had ever come back.

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**Who acts:** treasures, One, none, name · **What happens:** journey, come, hear, attempt, climb, come back · **To what, where:** Trelintin, last, dismal stories

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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 (treasures, One, none, name), 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:pg7277:15:55
# text = After journeying for two whole months they came at last to Trelintin, the capital of the Princess Sabella’s kingdom, and here he heard dismal stories about the Ice Mountain, and how none of those who had attempted to climb it had ever come back.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Trelintin	Trelintin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
27	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
36	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	41	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	nmod	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	47	advmod	_	_
47	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
48	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | gerund | treasures *= treasure* *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | treasures *= treasure* |  | Trelintin | last |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to trelintin=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past | One | dismal stories |  | here |  | about the Ice Mountain | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 4 | **attempt** | past · perfect | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **climb** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come back** | past | name |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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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