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title: He told Wali Dâd that he had not slept all night, and by the first s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He told Wali Dâd that he had not slept all night, and by the first streak of daylight had started to seek out his friend. Who acts: Fear. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, 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 2, sentence 23

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He told Wali Dâd that he had not slept all night, and by the first streak of daylight had started to seek out his friend.

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**Who acts:** Fear · **What happens:** tell, not sleep, start, seek out · **To what, where:** Wali, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear), 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:pg3282:35:23
# text = He told Wali Dâd that he had not slept all night, and by the first streak of daylight had started to seek out his friend.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Fear |  | Wali |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wali=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **sleep** | past · perfect | Fear |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **start** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | by the first streak of daylight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **seek out** | to-infinitive |  | Fear's friend |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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