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title: All through the day he walked, watching with interest the strange bi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All through the day he walked, watching with interest the strange birds and animals that darted across his path in the forest or peeped at him from behind a bush. Who acts: least, strange birds. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 106

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All through the day he walked, watching with interest the strange birds and animals that darted across his path in the forest or peeped at him from behind a bush.

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**Who acts:** least, strange birds · **What happens:** walk, watch, dart, peep · **To what, where:** strange birds, path, bush

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least, strange birds), 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:pg3282:17:106
# text = All through the day he walked, watching with interest the strange birds and animals that darted across his path in the forest or peeped at him from behind a bush.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | least |  |  |  | day | all *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | least *not said here* | the strange birds and animals |  |  |  | with interest | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 3 | **dart** | past | the strange birds and animals |  |  | least's path |  | in the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across path=Trajectory |
| 4 | **peep** | participle | the strange birds and animals *not said here* |  |  | a bush |  | at least | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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