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title: In this carriage he continued his journey very comfortably, passing… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this carriage he continued his journey very comfortably, passing many similar equipages upon the road, and being always most courteously saluted by the spaniels who occupied them. Who acts: repast, spaniels. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its depen
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 8

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In this carriage he continued his journey very comfortably, passing many similar equipages upon the road, and being always most courteously saluted by the spaniels who occupied them.

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**Who acts:** repast, spaniels · **What happens:** continue, pass, salute, occupy, journey · **To what, where:** journey, carriage, many similar equipages, road, equipages

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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 (repast, spaniels), 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:pg7277:15:8
# text = In this carriage he continued his journey very comfortably, passing many similar equipages upon the road, and being always most courteously saluted by the spaniels who occupied them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	equipages	equipage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	saluted	salute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | repast | repast's journey |  | this carriage |  | comfortably *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | gerund | repast *not said here* | many similar equipages |  | the road |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent equipage=Theme upon road=Destination |
| 3 | **salute** | gerund · passive | the spaniels |  |  |  |  | always, courteously *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **occupy** | past | the spaniels | equipages *= equipage* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 5 | **journey** |  | repast |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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