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title: Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wand… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wandered back to the same great city where the other young knight had met with so many adventures. Who acts: brother, other young knight. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 36

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Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wandered back to the same great city where the other young knight had met with so many adventures.

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**Who acts:** brother, other young knight · **What happens:** wander, wander back, meet · **To what, where:** last

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, other young knight), 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:pg3282:38:36
# text = Meanwhile his brother had wandered far and wide, and at last he wandered back to the same great city where the other young knight had met with so many adventures.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past · perfect | door's brother |  |  |  |  | far, meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wander back** | past | brother |  |  | last |  | to the same great city | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=Destination |
| 3 | **meet** | past · perfect | the other young knight |  |  |  |  | with many adventures | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-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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