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title: After walking on and on for eight days and eight nights, she came at… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After walking on and on for eight days and eight nights, she came at last to a tremendously high hill of polished ivory, so steep that it was impossible to get a foothold upon it. Who acts: sister. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree a
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 80

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After walking on and on for eight days and eight nights, she came at last to a tremendously high hill of polished ivory, so steep that it was impossible to get a foothold upon it.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** walk on, come, polish, be, get · **To what, where:** last, foothold

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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:pg7277:4:80
# text = After walking on and on for eight days and eight nights, she came at last to a tremendously high hill of polished ivory, so steep that it was impossible to get a foothold upon it.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	expl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	csubj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	foothold	foothold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk on** | gerund | sister *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | sister |  |  | last |  | to a high hill of polished ivory | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | a foothold |  |  |  | upon foothold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foothold=Stimulus |

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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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