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title: After travelling about for some length of time they reached a town w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After travelling about for some length of time they reached a town where lived a lovely but most arrogant Princess. Who acts: robbers. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 29

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After travelling about for some length of time they reached a town where lived a lovely but most arrogant Princess.

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**Who acts:** robbers · **What happens:** travel, reach, live · **To what, where:** town, lovely Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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:pg7277:47:29
# text = After travelling about for some length of time they reached a town where lived a lovely but most arrogant Princess.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	arrogant	arrogant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
20	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for some length of time; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | robbers *= robber* | a town |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past |  | a lovely Princess |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme princess=Location |

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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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