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title: As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he se… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he set out for Wali Dâd’s house with the twelve horses. Who acts: Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 30

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As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he set out for Wali Dâd’s house with the twelve horses.

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**Who acts:** Wali · **What happens:** arrive, set out · **To what, where:** merchant, home

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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 (Wali), 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:pg3282:34:30
# text = As before, the merchant at last arrived at home; and next day, he set out for Wali Dâd’s house with the twelve horses.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | participle |  | the merchant at last *not said here* |  | home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past | Wali |  |  |  | day | for Wali's house; with the twelve horses; before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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