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title: He walked on with the swan for some time, and came at last to a buil… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked on with the swan for some time, and came at last to a building-yard where some men were busily at work. Who acts: Peter, men. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 25

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He walked on with the swan for some time, and came at last to a building-yard where some men were busily at work.

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**Who acts:** Peter, men · **What happens:** walk on, come, be · **To what, where:** last, work

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, men), 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:pg7277:23:25
# text = He walked on with the swan for some time, and came at last to a building-yard where some men were busily at work.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk on** | past | Peter |  |  |  | time | with the swan | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  | last |  | to a building yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to yard=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | some men |  |  | work |  | busily *property* | tree rules |

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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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