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title: When Asmund saw all these wild doings from his tree he felt he could… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Asmund saw all these wild doings from his tree he felt he could no longer keep silence. Who acts: Asmund, Ring. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 75

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When Asmund saw all these wild doings from his tree he felt he could no longer keep silence.

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**Who acts:** Asmund, Ring · **What happens:** see, feel, keep · **To what, where:** wild doings, tree, silence

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asmund, Ring), 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:pg3282:30:75
# text = When Asmund saw all these wild doings from his tree he felt he could no longer keep silence.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
18	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Asmund | all wild doings |  | Ring's tree |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | past | Ring |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | could | Ring | silence |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=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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