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title: It was a long time before Jack was well enough to go about again; bu… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a long time before Jack was well enough to go about again; but when he did, he had an encounter with his old enemy the puma. Who acts: pain, breeze. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 84

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It was a long time before Jack was well enough to go about again; but when he did, he had an encounter with his old enemy the puma.

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**Who acts:** pain, breeze · **What happens:** be, go about, do, have · **To what, where:** long time, encounter

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pain, breeze), 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:pg3282:36:84
# text = It was a long time before Jack was well enough to go about again; but when he did, he had an encounter with his old enemy the puma.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	encounter	encounter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | pain | a long time |  |  | before Jack |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go about** | to-infinitive | pain *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past | breeze |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | breeze | a encounter |  |  |  | with breeze's old enemy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent encounter=Patient |

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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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