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title: Every day, through the heat of the afternoon, the governor, and his… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day, through the heat of the afternoon, the governor, and his wife also, used to lie down for two or three hours in their own rooms, and so, for the matter of that, did most people in the palace. Who acts: afternoon, that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 134

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Every day, through the heat of the afternoon, the governor, and his wife also, used to lie down for two or three hours in their own rooms, and so, for the matter of that, did most people in the palace.

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**Who acts:** afternoon, that · **What happens:** use, lie down, do, heat, matter · **To what, where:** day, own rooms, most people, palace

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (afternoon, that), 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:pg3282:33:134
# text = Every day, through the heat of the afternoon, the governor, and his wife also, used to lie down for two or three hours in their own rooms, and so, for the matter of that, did most people in the palace.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	ccomp	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
42	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | every day and Nur's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lie down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | governors's own rooms | hour |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 3 | **do** | past |  | most people |  | the palace | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality |
| 4 | **heat** |  | the afternoon |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **matter** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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