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title: He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life. Who acts: cobbler. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 74

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He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life.

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**Who acts:** cobbler · **What happens:** not cast, draw, see · **To what, where:** line, beautiful fish, river, life

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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 (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:pg3282:37:74
# text = He had not cast his line for ten minutes the next morning before he drew from the river the most beautiful fish he had ever seen in his life.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cast** | past · perfect | cobbler | cobbler's line |  |  | minute; morning |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Product |
| 2 | **draw** | past | cobbler | the beautiful fish |  | the river |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from river=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | cobbler | the beautiful fish *not said here* |  | cobbler's life | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |

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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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