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title: After the first outburst of wailing, however, he took heart and hurr… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the first outburst of wailing, however, he took heart and hurried off to see for himself the scene of this strange adventure, thinking, as people will in sorrow, that there might be some mistake after all. Who acts: king, mistake. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 24

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After the first outburst of wailing, however, he took heart and hurried off to see for himself the scene of this strange adventure, thinking, as people will in sorrow, that there might be some mistake after all.

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**Who acts:** king, mistake · **What happens:** take, hurry off, see, think, be · **To what, where:** heart, scene · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, mistake), 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:pg3282:31:24
# text = After the first outburst of wailing, however, he took heart and hurried off to see for himself the scene of this strange adventure, thinking, as people will in sorrow, that there might be some mistake after all.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	outburst	outburst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wailing	wailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
41	after	after	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | king | heart |  |  | after the first outburst of wailing | as sorrow; however *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent heart=Theme as sorrow=Attribute |
| 2 | **hurry off** | past | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the scene of this strange adventure |  |  |  | for king | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** | might | some mistake after all |  |  | there |  |  | 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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