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title: So, without stopping to ask any one’s advice, he went off in the mid… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, without stopping to ask any one’s advice, he went off in the middle of the night to a place where the river wound along at the base of steep rocky cliffs of great height, and determined to throw himself down and put an end to his life. Who acts: Wali. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 86

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So, without stopping to ask any one’s advice, he went off in the middle of the night to a place where the river wound along at the base of steep rocky cliffs of great height, and determined to throw himself down and put an end to his life.

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**Who acts:** Wali · **What happens:** stop, ask, go off, throw down, put · **To what, where:** advice, middle, Wali, end

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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:pg3282:34:86
# text = So, without stopping to ask any one’s advice, he went off in the middle of the night to a place where the river wound along at the base of steep rocky cliffs of great height, and determined to throw himself down and put an end to his life.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	down	down	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
48	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund | Wali *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Wali *not said here* | any one's advice |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
| 3 | **go off** | past | Wali |  |  | the middle of the night |  | to a place  the river wound; at the base of steep rocky cliffs of great height; along *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |
| 4 | **throw down** | to-infinitive | Wali *not said here* | Wali |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | Wali *not said here* | a end |  |  |  | to Wali's life | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |

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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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