--- title: The boy soon grew tired of walking along the road, and turned off in… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The boy soon grew tired of walking along the road, and turned off into the woods, where there were bushes he could jump and streams he could wade; but he had not gone far before he met the wolf. Who acts: boy, bushes. 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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 (boy, bushes), 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:pg3282:20:94 # text = The boy soon grew tired of walking along the road, and turned off into the woods, where there were bushes he could jump and streams he could wade; but he had not gone far before he met the wolf. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 along along ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 wade wade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 37 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | the boy | | | | | soon, tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | | | the road | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | | 3 | **turn off** | past | the boy *not said here* | | | the woods | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **be** | past | bushes | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **jump** | could | boy | streams | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory | | 6 | **wade** | could | boy | streams *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stream=Trajectory | | 7 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | boy | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **meet** | past | boy | the wolf | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent | 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 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/93/) - next →: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/1/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/)