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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 96

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After resting for a few minutes, to let the stag recover from his fright, they went on their way till they came to a grove of bananas.

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**Who acts:** bridges, stag · **What happens:** rest, let, recover, go, come, fright · **To what, where:** stag, fright, way, grove

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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 (bridges, stag), 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:pg3282:36:96
# text = After resting for a few minutes, to let the stag recover from his fright, they went on their way till they came to a grove of bananas.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund | bridges *= bridge* *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | bridges *= bridge* *not said here* | the stag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recover** | infinitive | the stag *not said here* |  |  | stag's fright |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fright=Source |
| 4 | **go** | past | bridges *= bridge* |  |  | bridges's way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 5 | **come** | past | bridges *= bridge* |  |  | a grove of bananas |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **fright** |  | stag |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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