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title: Following round the wall he reached a lower part; he remembered the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 43

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Following round the wall he reached a lower part; he remembered the Divine Names and flung himself over, saying, “Whatever happens is by the will of God.”

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**Who acts:** end, Whatever · **What happens:** follow, reach, remember, fling over, say, happen · **To what, where:** lower part, Divine Names, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (end, Whatever), 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:pg3282:3:43
# text = Following round the wall he reached a lower part; he remembered the Divine Names and flung himself over, saying, “Whatever happens is by the will of God.”
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Divine	Divine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Names	Name	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	amod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund | end *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | end | a lower part |  |  |  | round the wall | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** | past | end | the Divine Names |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **fling over** | past | end *not said here* | end |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | end *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | Whatever |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | by the happens God | tree rules |

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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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