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title: All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother who came in asked: “Why are you weeping so bitterly, my son?” Who acts: rest, mother, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 39

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All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother who came in asked: “Why are you weeping so bitterly, my son?”

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**Who acts:** rest, mother, you · **What happens:** sit, come in, ask, weep · **To what, where:** corner weeping · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, mother, you), 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:pg3282:16:39
# text = All the rest of the day he sat in a corner weeping, and his mother who came in asked: “Why are you weeping so bitterly, my son?”
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | all rest of the day |  |  | a corner weeping |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in weeping=Location |
| 2 | **come in** | past | rest's mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | rest's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **weep** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | my son *vocative*; bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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