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title: Indeed, he was so exhausted with his day’s work that he never heard… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, he was so exhausted with his day’s work that he never heard the approach of the giants, and their hands were already stretched out to seize his tail when his eyes opened, and with a tremendous bound he was once more beyond their reach. Who acts: giant, eyes, day, giants. A sentence of «The B
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 65

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Indeed, he was so exhausted with his day’s work that he never heard the approach of the giants, and their hands were already stretched out to seize his tail when his eyes opened, and with a tremendous bound he was once more beyond their reach.

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**Who acts:** giant, eyes, day, giants · **What happens:** exhaust, not hear, stretch out, seize, open, be · **To what, where:** giant, work, hands, tail

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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 (giant, eyes, day, giants), 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:pg3282:23:65
# text = Indeed, he was so exhausted with his day’s work that he never heard the approach of the giants, and their hands were already stretched out to seize his tail when his eyes opened, and with a tremendous bound he was once more beyond their reach.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	already	already	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
45	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	46	advmod	_	_
46	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	49	advmod	_	_
47	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exhaust** | past · passive |  | giant |  |  |  | with giant's day's work; indeed *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | past | giant | giant's day's work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stretch out** | past · passive |  | friends's hands |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | giant's tail |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 5 | **open** | past | giant's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | giant |  |  |  |  | beyond friends's reach; with a tremendous bound | tree rules |
| 7 | **work** |  | giant's day |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **approach** |  | the giants |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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