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title: He searched every thicket and path, he looked behind every tree, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 56

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He searched every thicket and path, he looked behind every tree, and gazed into every pond, but without success; then he hastened into the palace and rushed from room to room, peering into every hole and corner and calling her by name; but only echo answered in the marble halls—there was neither voice nor footstep.

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**Who acts:** head, voice · **What happens:** search, look, gaze, hasten, rush, peer · **To what, where:** thicket, palace, room, pretty, marble halls · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, voice), 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:pg3282:32:56
# text = He searched every thicket and path, he looked behind every tree, and gazed into every pond, but without success; then he hastened into the palace and rushed from room to room, peering into every hole and corner and calling her by name; but only echo answered in the marble halls—there was neither voice nor footstep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	peering	peer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	echo	echo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
52	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	xcomp	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	59	expl	_	_
59	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
60	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	61	cc:preconj	_	_
61	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
62	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	63	cc	_	_
63	footstep	footstep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search** | past | head | every thicket and path |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent thicket=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | head |  |  |  |  | behind every tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind tree=Theme |
| 3 | **gaze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | into every pond | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pond=Theme |
| 4 | **hasten** | past | head |  |  | the palace | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=Destination |
| 5 | **rush** | participle | head *not said here* |  |  | room to room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from room=Trajectory |
| 6 | **peer** | gerund | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into every hole and corner | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into hole=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | gerund | head *not said here* |  | pretty |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 8 | **echo** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | the marble halls |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **be** | past | voice nor footstep |  |  | 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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