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title: For a long while Ball-Carrier was content to stay quietly at home wi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long while Ball-Carrier was content to stay quietly at home with his wife and children, for he was tired of adventures, and only did enough hunting to supply the house with food. Who acts: Ball Carrier, Carrier. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 105

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For a long while Ball-Carrier was content to stay quietly at home with his wife and children, for he was tired of adventures, and only did enough hunting to supply the house with food.

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**Who acts:** Ball Carrier, Carrier · **What happens:** be, stay, do, supply · **To what, where:** home, enough hunting, house

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ball Carrier, Carrier), 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:pg3282:7:105
# text = For a long while Ball-Carrier was content to stay quietly at home with his wife and children, for he was tired of adventures, and only did enough hunting to supply the house with food.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	content	content	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	supply	supply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | past | Ball Carrier |  |  |  |  | for a long; content *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | Ball Carrier *not said here* |  |  | home |  | with Carrier's wife and children; quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Carrier |  |  |  |  | of adventures; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past |  | enough hunting |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Eventuality |
| 5 | **supply** | to-infinitive |  | the house |  |  |  | with food | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Recipient with food=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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