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title: After he had rustled the leaves only once all fatigue disappeared, a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After he had rustled the leaves only once all fatigue disappeared, and he strode over the grass till he came to another little turf hut. Who acts: man, fatigue. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 50

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After he had rustled the leaves only once all fatigue disappeared, and he strode over the grass till he came to another little turf hut.

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**Who acts:** man, fatigue · **What happens:** rustle, disappear, stride, come · **To what, where:** leaves, grass, little turf hut

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fatigue), 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:pg3282:24:50
# text = After he had rustled the leaves only once all fatigue disappeared, and he strode over the grass till he came to another little turf hut.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
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	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** | past · perfect | man | the leaves |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | all fatigue |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stride** | past | man |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grass=Trajectory |
| 4 | **come** | past | man |  |  | another little turf hut |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hut=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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