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title: From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, withou… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, without hooking anything better than an eel, or a few old shoes, that even he, clever though he was, felt were not worth mending. Who acts: dawn, cobbler. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-H
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 72

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From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, without hooking anything better than an eel, or a few old shoes, that even he, clever though he was, felt were not worth mending.

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**Who acts:** dawn, cobbler · **What happens:** stand, hook, be, feel, not be, mend · **To what, where:** few old shoes, banks, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dawn, cobbler), 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:pg3282:37:72
# text = From dawn to dark he stood on the banks of the little stream, without hooking anything better than an eel, or a few old shoes, that even he, clever though he was, felt were not worth mending.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hooking	hook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
42	mending	mend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | dawn | a few old shoes |  | the banks of the little stream |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 2 | **hook** | gerund | dawn *not said here* | anything |  |  |  | good *property* | vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme anything=Extent |
| 3 | **be** | past | cobbler |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | dawn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | dawn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mend** | gerund | dawn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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