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title: A little further along he saw a baker who was standing at the door,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little further along he saw a baker who was standing at the door, eating one of his loaves. Who acts: work, baker. 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 of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 9

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A little further along he saw a baker who was standing at the door, eating one of his loaves.

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**Who acts:** work, baker · **What happens:** see, stand, eat · **To what, where:** baker, door, one

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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 (work, baker), 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:pg3282:36:9
# text = A little further along he saw a baker who was standing at the door, eating one of his loaves.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	further	further	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | work | a baker |  |  |  | further *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baker=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | a baker |  |  | the door |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | a baker *not said here* | one of work's loaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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