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title: After journeying through three different kingdoms he reached a wood… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After journeying through three different kingdoms he reached a wood one night, and lying down under a tree prepared to go to sleep there. Who acts: tree, lying. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 57

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After journeying through three different kingdoms he reached a wood one night, and lying down under a tree prepared to go to sleep there.

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**Who acts:** tree, lying · **What happens:** journey, reach, lie down, prepare, go, sleep · **To what, where:** three different kingdoms, wood, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, lying), 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:pg7277:50:57
# text = After journeying through three different kingdoms he reached a wood one night, and lying down under a tree prepared to go to sleep there.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | gerund | tree *not said here* |  |  | three different kingdoms |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through kingdom=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | past | tree | a wood |  |  | night |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 3 | **lie down** | gerund |  |  |  | a tree |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 4 | **prepare** | participle | lying |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | lying *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP 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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