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title: He wandered about the city, but heard nothing of service, for there… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He wandered about the city, but heard nothing of service, for there was no one in all that land who understood the riddle of Princess Mihr-afruz. Who acts: prince, land, Princess afruz. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 28

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He wandered about the city, but heard nothing of service, for there was no one in all that land who understood the riddle of Princess Mihr-afruz.

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**Who acts:** prince, land, Princess afruz · **What happens:** wander, hear, be, understand, riddle · **To what, where:** nothing, one, land, riddle

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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 (prince, land, Princess afruz), 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:pg3282:2:28
# text = He wandered about the city, but heard nothing of service, for there was no one in all that land who understood the riddle of Princess Mihr-afruz.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	afruz	afruz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | about the city | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about city=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hear** | past |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | no one |  | all land |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **understand** | past | all land | the riddle of Princess afruz |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer riddle=Stimulus |
| 5 | **riddle** |  | Princess afruz |  |  |  |  |  | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: of=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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