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title: He remained for some time living as a deer amongst the rest, but at… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He remained for some time living as a deer amongst the rest, but at length resolved that an end to such a life must be put ill some way. Who acts: Latifa, time. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 41

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He remained for some time living as a deer amongst the rest, but at length resolved that an end to such a life must be put ill some way.

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**Who acts:** Latifa, time · **What happens:** remain, live, resolve, put · **To what, where:** rest, length, end

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Latifa, time), 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:pg3282:3:41
# text = He remained for some time living as a deer amongst the rest, but at length resolved that an end to such a life must be put ill some way.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
28	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Latifa |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | some time *not said here* |  |  | the rest |  | as a deer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst rest=Location |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | Latifa *not said here* |  |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | must · passive |  | a end to such life |  |  |  | some way *obl:unmarked*; ill *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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