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title: Meanwhile the young man walked briskly along, till he came up with t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the young man walked briskly along, till he came up with two other men, who were disputing over a table-cloth. Who acts: young man, man, two other men. 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 c
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 74

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Meanwhile the young man walked briskly along, till he came up with two other men, who were disputing over a table-cloth.

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**Who acts:** young man, man, two other men · **What happens:** walk, come up, dispute

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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, two other men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3282:2176`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:24:74
# text = Meanwhile the young man walked briskly along, till he came up with two other men, who were disputing over a table-cloth.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	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	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	briskly	briskly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	disputing	dispute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | along, briskly, meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come up** | past | man |  |  |  |  | with two other men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dispute** | past · progressive | two other men |  |  |  |  | over a table cloth | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over cloth=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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