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title: So the young man put the letter in his pocket, and walked all day ov… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the young man put the letter in his pocket, and walked all day over the hills till he reached a little turf hut, exactly like the other two. Who acts: young man, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 58

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So the young man put the letter in his pocket, and walked all day over the hills till he reached a little turf hut, exactly like the other two.

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**Who acts:** young man, man · **What happens:** put, walk, reach · **To what, where:** letter, pocket, hills, 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 (young man, man), 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:pg3282:24:58
# text = So the young man put the letter in his pocket, and walked all day over the hills till he reached a little turf hut, exactly like the other two.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	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	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the young man | the letter |  | man's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  | the hills | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory |
| 3 | **reach** | past | man | a little turf hut |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=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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