--- title: So on he travelled, away, away, away, through thick forests, till at… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So on he travelled, away, away, away, through thick forests, till at last he came to a beautiful castle. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/11/) [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/) / [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/) / 11 # The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 11 So on he travelled, away, away, away, through thick forests, till at last he came to a beautiful castle. **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** travel, come · **To what, where:** thick forests, last This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg7277:20:11 # text = So on he travelled, away, away, away, through thick forests, till at last he came to a beautiful castle. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 on on SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | man | | | thick forests | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | | 2 | **come** | past | man | | | last | | to a beautiful castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/12/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)