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title: In a wide open space surrounded by trees he met with an elephant, wh… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a wide open space surrounded by trees he met with an elephant, who was having his supper before taking his evening bath in the river which ran close by. Who acts: Tale, elephant, river. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, with its dep
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 45

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In a wide open space surrounded by trees he met with an elephant, who was having his supper before taking his evening bath in the river which ran close by.

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**Who acts:** Tale, elephant, river · **What happens:** surround, meet, have, take, run · **To what, where:** wide open space, supper, evening bath, river

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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 (Tale, elephant, river), 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:pg3282:35:45
# text = In a wide open space surrounded by trees he met with an elephant, who was having his supper before taking his evening bath in the river which ran close by.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle |  | a wide open space *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | Tale |  |  | a wide open space |  | with a elephant | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with elephant=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past · progressive | a elephant | Tale's supper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | a elephant *not said here* | Tale's evening bath |  | the river |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bath=Value in river=Location |
| 5 | **run** | past | the river |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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