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title: They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each o… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each other by everybody they saw, and determined to set off in different directions, to seek adventures. Who acts: babies, everybody. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 83

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They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each other by everybody they saw, and determined to set off in different directions, to seek adventures.

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**Who acts:** babies, everybody · **What happens:** be, live, mistake, see, set off, seek · **To what, where:** home, different directions, adventures

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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 (babies, everybody), 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:pg3282:37:83
# text = They were tired of living quietly at home, being mistaken for each other by everybody they saw, and determined to set off in different directions, to seek adventures.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obl	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obl:agent	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
31	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | babies *= baby* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | babies *= baby* *not said here* |  |  | home |  | quietly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 3 | **mistake** | gerund · passive | everybody |  |  |  |  | for each | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | past | babies *= baby* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **be** |  | babies *= baby* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **set off** | to-infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* |  |  | different directions |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **seek** | to-infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* | adventures |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme |

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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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