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title: Then he took the middle road and went along it, day after day, with… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took the middle road and went along it, day after day, with many a silent prayer, till he saw trees rise from the weary waste of sand. Who acts: tee, trees. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 124

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Then he took the middle road and went along it, day after day, with many a silent prayer, till he saw trees rise from the weary waste of sand.

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**Who acts:** tee, trees · **What happens:** take, go, see, rise · **To what, where:** middle road, road, weary waste · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tee, trees), 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:pg3282:2:124
# text = Then he took the middle road and went along it, day after day, with many a silent prayer, till he saw trees rise from the weary waste of sand.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | tee | the middle road |  |  | then; day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | tee *not said here* |  |  | road |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along it=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | tee |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rise** | present | trees |  |  | the weary waste of sand |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from waste=Initial\_Location |

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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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