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title: Here was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a wife. Who acts: man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 1

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Here was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a wife.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, travel, search · **To what, where:** land, search, wife

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7439:27:1
# text = Here was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a wife.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	conj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | past | a man | the land |  | search of a wife |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Trajectory |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | a wife |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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