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title: The evening before, the youth went down to the rocks and into the co… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The evening before, the youth went down to the rocks and into the copse, collecting all the drift wood the sea had washed up or the gale had blown down, and he piled it up in a great stack outside the door, so that he might not have to fetch any all the next day. Who acts: youth, gale. A sentence of
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 22

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The evening before, the youth went down to the rocks and into the copse, collecting all the drift wood the sea had washed up or the gale had blown down, and he piled it up in a great stack outside the door, so that he might not have to fetch any all the next day.

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**Who acts:** youth, gale · **What happens:** go down, collect, wash up, blow down, pile up, not have · **To what, where:** drift wood, sea, great stack

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, gale), 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:pg3282:20:22
# text = The evening before, the youth went down to the rocks and into the copse, collecting all the drift wood the sea had washed up or the gale had blown down, and he piled it up in a great stack outside the door, so that he might not have to fetch any all the next day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	copse	copse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	drift	drift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
32	down	down	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	piled	pile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	stack	stack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	52	mark	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	59	det	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	59	det:predet	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the youth |  |  |  | evening | to the rocks and the copse; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund | the youth *not said here* | all drift wood |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 3 | **wash up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **blow down** | past · perfect | the gale |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pile up** | past | gale | sea |  | a great stack outside the door |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stack=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **have** | might | gale |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | gale *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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