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title: But as evening drew on he became tired, and looked about as he walke… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as evening drew on he became tired, and looked about as he walked for some place where he could sleep. Who acts: least. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 107

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But as evening drew on he became tired, and looked about as he walked for some place where he could sleep.

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**Who acts:** least · **What happens:** draw, become, look, walk, sleep

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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), 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:pg3282:17:107
# text = But as evening drew on he became tired, and looked about as he walked for some place where he could sleep.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  |  |  |  | evening |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | least |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **walk** | past | least |  |  |  |  | for some place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | could | least |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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