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title: When he had gazed his fill he went out into the courtyard and picked… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had gazed his fill he went out into the courtyard and picked up his hen who was seeking for corn. Who acts: boy, hen. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 32

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When he had gazed his fill he went out into the courtyard and picked up his hen who was seeking for corn.

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**Who acts:** boy, hen · **What happens:** gaze, go out, pick up, seek · **To what, where:** fill, courtyard, hen

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, hen), 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:pg3282:23:32
# text = When he had gazed his fill he went out into the courtyard and picked up his hen who was seeking for corn.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past · perfect | boy | boy's fill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | past | boy |  |  | the courtyard |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pick up** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's hen |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic |
| 4 | **seek** | past · progressive | boy's hen |  |  |  |  | for corn | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for corn=Theme |

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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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