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title: But at length the young man grew tired of always staying inside wall… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But at length the young man grew tired of always staying inside walls, and he told his wife that the next day he must leave her for a few hours, and go out hunting. ' Who acts: young man, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 42

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But at length the young man grew tired of always staying inside walls, and he told his wife that the next day he must leave her for a few hours, and go out hunting. '

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**Who acts:** young man, man · **What happens:** grow, stay, tell, leave, go out, hunt · **To what, where:** length, walls, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, 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:pg3027:14:42
# text = But at length the young man grew tired of always staying inside walls, and he told his wife that the next day he must leave her for a few hours, and go out hunting. '
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the young man |  |  | length |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  | walls |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside wall=Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man |  | man's wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** | must | man | wife |  |  | day; hour |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **go out** | infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hunt** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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