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title: Where there is a river, sooner or later people will come; so, hangin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Where there is a river, sooner or later people will come; so, hanging myself on a tree, I watched and waited. Who acts: river, people, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 46

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Where there is a river, sooner or later people will come; so, hanging myself on a tree, I watched and waited.

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**Who acts:** river, people, I · **What happens:** be, come, hang, watch, wait · **To what, where:** river, myself, tree

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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 (river, people, I), 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:pg3282:29:46
# text = Where there is a river, sooner or later people will come; so, hanging myself on a tree, I watched and waited.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a river |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | future | people | a river *not said here* |  |  |  | late, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund |  | myself |  | a tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on tree=Destination |
| 4 | **watch** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wait** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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