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title: For hundreds of years I have lived in the depths of the forest, wher… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For hundreds of years I have lived in the depths of the forest, where nothing but wild beasts ever came, and it was only when the lion threw me into the sky that I was able to fall to earth near this river. Who acts: I, nothing, beast, sky. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Br
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 45

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For hundreds of years I have lived in the depths of the forest, where nothing but wild beasts ever came, and it was only when the lion threw me into the sky that I was able to fall to earth near this river.

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**Who acts:** I, nothing, beast, sky · **What happens:** live, come, be, fall · **To what, where:** depths, sky, river

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nothing, beast, sky), 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:pg3282:29:45
# text = For hundreds of years I have lived in the depths of the forest, where nothing but wild beasts ever came, and it was only when the lion threw me into the sky that I was able to fall to earth near this river.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	nsubj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	near	near	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
45	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the depths of the forest |  | for hundreds of years | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | nothing |  |  |  | ever |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | beast |  |  | the sky |  | throw *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the sky |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the sky *not said here* |  |  | this river |  | to earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near river=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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