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title: All day long the boy stood at the window, looking over the sea by wh… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All day long the boy stood at the window, looking over the sea by which the princess must travel; but there were no signs of her, not even the tiniest white sail. Who acts: boy, princess, signs. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 79

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All day long the boy stood at the window, looking over the sea by which the princess must travel; but there were no signs of her, not even the tiniest white sail.

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**Who acts:** boy, princess, signs · **What happens:** stand, look, travel, be, sign · **To what, where:** window, princess

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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, princess, signs), 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:pg3282:23:79
# text = All day long the boy stood at the window, looking over the sea by which the princess must travel; but there were no signs of her, not even the tiniest white sail.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
34	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the boy |  |  | the window | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=Theme |
| 3 | **travel** | must | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Trajectory |
| 4 | **be** | past | no signs of princess  the tiniest white sail |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | princess |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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