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title: So he went off into the forest, and before long a fine stag, such as… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went off into the forest, and before long a fine stag, such as he had seen in his dream, stopped just in front of him. Who acts: Meantime. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 70

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So he went off into the forest, and before long a fine stag, such as he had seen in his dream, stopped just in front of him.

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**Who acts:** Meantime · **What happens:** go off, long, see, stop, dream · **To what, where:** forest, fine stag, dream, front

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime), 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:pg7277:49:70
# text = So he went off into the forest, and before long a fine stag, such as he had seen in his dream, stopped just in front of him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	long	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	20	mark	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
25	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | Meantime |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **long** | gerund |  | a fine stag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | Meantime | a fine stag *not said here* |  | Meantime's dream |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stop** | past | Meantime *not said here* |  |  | front of Meantime |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 5 | **dream** |  | Meantime |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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