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title: He had not waited long, when the father came in sight, stooping as h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not waited long, when the father came in sight, stooping as he went to look for his sons’ tracks in the snow. Who acts: chief, father. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 89

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He had not waited long, when the father came in sight, stooping as he went to look for his sons’ tracks in the snow.

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**Who acts:** chief, father · **What happens:** not wait, come, stoop, go, look · **To what, where:** sight

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, father), 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:pg3282:14:89
# text = He had not waited long, when the father came in sight, stooping as he went to look for his sons’ tracks in the snow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** | past · perfect | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the father |  |  | sight |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 3 | **stoop** | gerund | the father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for chief's sons's tracks in the snow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for track=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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