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title: With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 10

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With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to the house of a rich friend, who was a travelling merchant, and used to wander about with his camels and merchandise through many countries.

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**Who acts:** man, rich friend · **What happens:** wrap up, go, be, use, wander · **To what, where:** this, cotton waistband, house, travelling merchant, many countries

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, rich friend), 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:pg3282:34:10
# text = With this carefully wrapped up in his cotton waistband he went to the house of a rich friend, who was a travelling merchant, and used to wander about with his camels and merchandise through many countries.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	waistband	waistband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	travelling	travelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap up** | participle · passive |  | this |  | man's cotton waistband |  | carefully *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in waistband=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | man |  |  | the house of a rich friend and a travelling merchant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a rich friend and a travelling merchant | a travelling merchant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wander** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | many countries |  | with man's camels and merchandise; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory |

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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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