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title: At night sleep fled from him, and after tossing for hours on his bed… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At night sleep fled from him, and after tossing for hours on his bed, he would get up and plunge into a deep pool that lay a little way in the forest. Who acts: man, deep pool. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 49

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At night sleep fled from him, and after tossing for hours on his bed, he would get up and plunge into a deep pool that lay a little way in the forest.

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**Who acts:** man, deep pool · **What happens:** flee, toss, get up, plunge, lie · **To what, where:** night sleep, bed, deep pool, little way, forest

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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 (man, deep pool), 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:pg3282:10:49
# text = At night sleep fled from him, and after tossing for hours on his bed, he would get up and plunge into a deep pool that lay a little way in the forest.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	plunge	plunge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past |  |  |  | night sleep |  | from man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **toss** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | man's bed | hour |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination |
| 3 | **get up** | would | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **plunge** | present | man *not said here* |  |  | a deep pool |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into pool=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **lie** | past | a deep pool | a little way |  | the forest |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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