--- title: A few months after his arrival, when the days were cooler, and the p… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: A few months after his arrival, when the days were cooler, and the people did not sleep so much as usual, a great feast was held a little way out of the town, and to this feast everyone flocked from thirty miles and more. Who acts: few months, people, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few months, people, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:10:43 # text = A few months after his arrival, when the days were cooler, and the people did not sleep so much as usual, a great feast was held a little way out of the town, and to this feast everyone flocked from thirty miles and more. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 41 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 43 obl _ _ 43 flocked flock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | a few months after man's arrival | | | | | cool *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **sleep** | past · do-support | the people | much | | | | as usual | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | past · passive | | a great feast | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme way=Eventuality | | 4 | **flock** | past | a few months after man's arrival *not said here* | | | | | to everyone; from thirty miles | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **arrive** | | man | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/44/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/)