--- title: I left the pool, and, dressing myself as fast as I could, I searched… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I left the pool, and, dressing myself as fast as I could, I searched every bush and tree round the water, as I fancied that perhaps it was my friend who was playing a trick on me, but there was not a creature to be seen; and when I reached home I found my friend fast asleep.” Who acts: I, bush, frie --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/) / 61 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 61 I left the pool, and, dressing myself as fast as I could, I searched every bush and tree round the water, as I fancied that perhaps it was my friend who was playing a trick on me, but there was not a creature to be seen; and when I reached home I found my friend fast asleep.” **Who acts:** I, bush, friend, creature · **What happens:** leave, dress, search, fancy, be, play · **To what, where:** pool, myself, bush, friend, trick 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 (I, bush, friend, creature), 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:pg3282:10:61 # text = I left the pool, and, dressing myself as fast as I could, I searched every bush and tree round the water, as I fancied that perhaps it was my friend who was playing a trick on me, but there was not a creature to be seen; and when I reached home I found my friend fast asleep.” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 dressing dress VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 round round ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 30 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 45 expl _ _ 45 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 50 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 aux:pass _ _ 51 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ; ; PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 54 when when SCONJ WRB _ 56 mark _ _ 55 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 advcl _ _ 57 home home ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 58 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 60 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ _ 62 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 63 advmod _ _ 63 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | I | the pool | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Theme | | 2 | **dress** | gerund | I *not said here* | myself | | | | fast *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | | 3 | **search** | past | I | every bush and tree | | | | round the water | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bush=Location | | 4 | **fancy** | past | I | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | past | bush | my friend | | | | perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **play** | past · progressive | my friend | a trick | | | | on me | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | | 7 | **be** | past | a creature | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | a creature *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 9 | **reach** | past | I | | | | | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **find** | past | I | my friend | | | | asleep *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/62/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/)