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title: By-and-by he grew weary of always working, and on Sundays he lay a l… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-by he grew weary of always working, and on Sundays he lay a long while in bed, instead of going to church. Who acts: Father. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 10

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By-and-by he grew weary of always working, and on Sundays he lay a long while in bed, instead of going to church.

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**Who acts:** Father · **What happens:** grow, work, lie, go · **To what, where:** bed, church

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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:pg3282:9:10
# text = By-and-by he grew weary of always working, and on Sundays he lay a long while in bed, instead of going to church.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Father |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | Father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Father |  |  | bed | sunday; while |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | Father *not said here* | church |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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