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title: Then with heavy hearts they set out to follow the course of the stre… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then with heavy hearts they set out to follow the course of the stream, which had now grown so wide that it was only with difficulty they could distinguish each other. Who acts: Sylvain, stream, course. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 26

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Then with heavy hearts they set out to follow the course of the stream, which had now grown so wide that it was only with difficulty they could distinguish each other.

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**Who acts:** Sylvain, stream, course · **What happens:** set out, follow, grow, be, distinguish · **To what, where:** course, each

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sylvain, stream, course), 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:pg7277:9:26
# text = Then with heavy hearts they set out to follow the course of the stream, which had now grown so wide that it was only with difficulty they could distinguish each other.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	advcl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	30	obj	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Sylvain |  |  |  | then | with heavy hearts | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Sylvain *not said here* | the course of the stream |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | the stream |  |  |  | now | wide *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | course |  |  |  |  | with difficulty | tree rules |
| 5 | **distinguish** | could | Sylvain | each |  |  |  |  | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute each=Theme |

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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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