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title: He went in and wandered about through all quarters, and through baza… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He went in and wandered about through all quarters, and through bazaars and lanes and squares, in the least knowing from whom he could ask information about the riddle of Mihr-afruz. Who acts: prince, Mihr afruz. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 113

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He went in and wandered about through all quarters, and through bazaars and lanes and squares, in the least knowing from whom he could ask information about the riddle of Mihr-afruz.

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**Who acts:** prince, Mihr afruz · **What happens:** go in, wander, know, ask, riddle · **To what, where:** quarters, information · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (prince, Mihr afruz), 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:pg3282:4:113
# text = He went in and wandered about through all quarters, and through bazaars and lanes and squares, in the least knowing from whom he could ask information about the riddle of Mihr-afruz.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bazaars	bazaar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	appos	_	_
22	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	riddle	riddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	afruz	afruz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go in** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wander** | past | prince *not said here* |  |  | all quarters |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through quarter=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | could | prince | information |  |  |  | about the riddle of Mihr afruz | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent information=Recipient about riddle=Topic |
| 5 | **riddle** |  | Mihr afruz |  |  |  |  |  | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: of=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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