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title: With the earliest rays of dawn he went back to the forest to see whe… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 132

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With the earliest rays of dawn he went back to the forest to see whether he could find any traces of the Yara, but though he searched every clump of bushes, and looked up every tree, everything was empty, and the only voices he heard were those of parrots, which are so ugly that they only drive people away.

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**Who acts:** moon, everything, only voices, those, traces · **What happens:** go back, see, find, search, look up, be · **To what, where:** traces, clump, tree, only voices, those, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, everything, only voices, those), 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:pg3282:10:132
# text = With the earliest rays of dawn he went back to the forest to see whether he could find any traces of the Yara, but though he searched every clump of bushes, and looked up every tree, everything was empty, and the only voices he heard were those of parrots, which are so ugly that they only drive people away.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Yara	Yara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
42	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	58	nsubj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nmod	_	_
56	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
61	only	only	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
63	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obj	_	_
64	away	away	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | moon |  |  |  | dawn | with the earliest rays; to the forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **find** | could | moon | any traces of the Yara |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
| 4 | **search** | past | moon | every clump of bushes |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent clump=Location |
| 5 | **look up** | past | moon *not said here* | every tree |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Attribute |
| 6 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | past | moon | the only voices *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is a** | past | the only voices | those |  |  |  | of parrots | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | those |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **drive away** | present | traces *= trace* | people |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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