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title: He watched the figure for some time, till at length the old man left… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He watched the figure for some time, till at length the old man left the crowded paths, and threw himself on the soft grass under a lime tree, which stood at some distance from where Tiidu was sitting. Who acts: Tiidu, old man, lime tree. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Cr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 56

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He watched the figure for some time, till at length the old man left the crowded paths, and threw himself on the soft grass under a lime tree, which stood at some distance from where Tiidu was sitting.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, old man, lime tree · **What happens:** watch, leave, throw, stand, sit · **To what, where:** figure, crowded paths, length, Tiidu, soft grass

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, old man, lime tree), 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:pg2435:11:56
# text = He watched the figure for some time, till at length the old man left the crowded paths, and threw himself on the soft grass under a lime tree, which stood at some distance from where Tiidu was sitting.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
39	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Tiidu | the figure |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the old man | the crowded paths |  | length |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent path=Theme at length=Location |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Tiidu *not said here* | Tiidu |  | the soft grass |  | under a lime tree | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on grass=Destination |
| 4 | **stand** | past | a lime tree |  |  |  |  | at some distance | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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