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title: Fortunately one of his guards woke up as it was trying to steal past… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately one of his guards woke up as it was trying to steal past them, and shut the crocodile up in a large hall, where a giant watched over it, never leaving the spot except during the night, when the crocodile slept. Who acts: one, farewell, crocodile. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by A
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 69

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Fortunately one of his guards woke up as it was trying to steal past them, and shut the crocodile up in a large hall, where a giant watched over it, never leaving the spot except during the night, when the crocodile slept.

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**Who acts:** one, farewell, crocodile · **What happens:** wake up, try, steal, shut up, watch, not leave · **To what, where:** crocodile, large hall, farewell, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, farewell, crocodile), 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:pg3282:25:69
# text = Fortunately one of his guards woke up as it was trying to steal past them, and shut the crocodile up in a large hall, where a giant watched over it, never leaving the spot except during the night, when the crocodile slept.
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	past	past	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	except	except	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	during	during	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | one of prince's guards |  |  |  |  | fortunately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | past · progressive | farewell |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **steal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | farewell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past guards *= guard* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shut up** | past | one of prince's guards *not said here* | the crocodile |  | a large hall |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crocodile=Patient |
| 5 | **watch** | participle |  |  |  | farewell |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location |
| 6 | **not** **leave** | gerund |  | the spot |  |  | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 7 | **sleep** | past | the crocodile |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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