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title: For a few moments he stood there, wondering what was to be done, the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 63

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For a few moments he stood there, wondering what was to be done, then there darted into his head some words of a spell which he had once heard a wizard use, while drinking from the river.

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**Who acts:** Hare · **What happens:** stand, wonder, do, dart, hear, drink · **To what, where:** words, head, spell, river · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), 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:pg3282:11:63
# text = For a few moments he stood there, wondering what was to be done, then there darted into his head some words of a spell which he had once heard a wizard use, while drinking from the river.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	darted	dart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	advmod	_	_
31	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wizard	wizard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Hare |  |  | there | moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **dart** | participle | Hare *not said here* | some words of a spell |  | Hare's head; there | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent word=Theme into head=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | a spell |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **drink** | gerund | Hare *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | a spell |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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