--- title: He went round outside the garden wall hoping to find a gap, and he m… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went round outside the garden wall hoping to find a gap, and he made supplication in the Court of Supplications and prayed, “O Holder of the hand of the helpless! show me my way.” Who acts: prince. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:2:33 # text = He went round outside the garden wall hoping to find a gap, and he made supplication in the Court of Supplications and prayed, “O Holder of the hand of the helpless! show me my way.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 round round ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 outside outside ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 supplication supplication NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Supplications supplication NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 28 case _ _ 28 Holder Holder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 helpless helpless NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 36 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go round** | past | prince | | | the garden wall | | round *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | a gap | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Topic | | 4 | **make** | past | prince | supplication | | the Court of Supplications | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supplication=Product | | 5 | **pray** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive | prince *not said here* | my way | prince | | | of Holder of the hand of the helpless | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/34/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/2/)