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title: So he walked up moors, down glens, till at last he came to a farm, f… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he walked up moors, down glens, till at last he came to a farm, from which the good man had gone away to market. Who acts: soldier, good man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 2

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So he walked up moors, down glens, till at last he came to a farm, from which the good man had gone away to market.

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**Who acts:** soldier, good man · **What happens:** walk up, come, go · **To what, where:** moors, last

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, good man), 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:pg7439:13:2
# text = So he walked up moors, down glens, till at last he came to a farm, from which the good man had gone away to market.
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	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	glens	glen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk up** | past | soldier | moors and glens |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | soldier |  |  | last |  | to a farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | the good man |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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