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title: So they went on their way together, and came at last to a wood, wher… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 45

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So they went on their way together, and came at last to a wood, where, being tired with walking, they paused to rest under the shade of a tree, where a spring of water sported with the tender grass, refreshing it with its crystal spray.

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**Who acts:** inhabitants · **What happens:** go, come, be, pause, rest, sport · **To what, where:** way, last, shade, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants), 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:pg7277:25:45
# text = So they went on their way together, and came at last to a wood, where, being tired with walking, they paused to rest under the shade of a tree, where a spring of water sported with the tender grass, refreshing it with its crystal spray.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	sported	sport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  | inhabitants's way |  | together *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* |  |  | last |  | to a wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with walking; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pause** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* |  |  | the shade of a tree |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location |
| 6 | **sport** | participle | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | with the tender grass | tree rules |
| 7 | **refresh** | gerund | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *not said here* | way |  |  |  | with way's crystal spray | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 8 | **shade** |  |  | a tree |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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