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title: So he went home and put some food into a bag, and then set forth, ho… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went home and put some food into a bag, and then set forth, hoping that some accident might show him which path to take. Who acts: king, accident. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 142

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So he went home and put some food into a bag, and then set forth, hoping that some accident might show him which path to take.

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**Who acts:** king, accident · **What happens:** go, put, set, hope, show, take · **To what, where:** food, bag, path, king

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, accident), 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:pg3282:22:142
# text = So he went home and put some food into a bag, and then set forth, hoping that some accident might show him which path to take.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | king |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | king *not said here* | some food |  | a bag |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **show** | might | some accident | which path | king |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient path=Topic |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | some accident *not said here* | which path *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «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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