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title: After walking for several hours he met a fox, who seemed inclined to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After walking for several hours he met a fox, who seemed inclined to be friendly, and the boy was so glad to have anyone to talk to that he sat down and entered into conversation. Who acts: king, fox, boy, anyone. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, wi
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 143

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After walking for several hours he met a fox, who seemed inclined to be friendly, and the boy was so glad to have anyone to talk to that he sat down and entered into conversation.

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**Who acts:** king, fox, boy, anyone · **What happens:** walk, meet, seem, be, have, talk · **To what, where:** fox, anyone, conversation

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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, fox, boy, anyone), 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:pg3282:22:143
# text = After walking for several hours he met a fox, who seemed inclined to be friendly, and the boy was so glad to have anyone to talk to that he sat down and entered into conversation.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | king | a fox |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a fox |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | the boy *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **talk** | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sit down** | past | king |  |  |  |  | to that | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **enter** | past | king *not said here* |  |  | conversation |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial\_Location |

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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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