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title: It happened one day that when they were all standing together by the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened one day that when they were all standing together by the tree that a young knight came riding along. Who acts: It, one day, young knight. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 97

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It happened one day that when they were all standing together by the tree that a young knight came riding along.

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**Who acts:** It, one day, young knight · **What happens:** happen, stand together, come, ride along

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one day, young knight), 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:pg7277:40:97
# text = It happened one day that when they were all standing together by the tree that a young knight came riding along.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand together** | past · progressive | one day |  |  |  |  | by the tree; all, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | a young knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride along** | gerund | a young knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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