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title: His heavy wooden shoes clattered as he ran along the road, and he ma… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His heavy wooden shoes clattered as he ran along the road, and he made such haste that the stars were only just beginning to come out when he reached the cave of the Holy Man. Who acts: heavy wooden shoes, cock, stars. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 120

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His heavy wooden shoes clattered as he ran along the road, and he made such haste that the stars were only just beginning to come out when he reached the cave of the Holy Man.

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**Who acts:** heavy wooden shoes, cock, stars · **What happens:** clatter, run, make, begin, come out, reach · **To what, where:** road, such haste, cave

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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 (heavy wooden shoes, cock, stars), 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:pg3282:9:120
# text = His heavy wooden shoes clattered as he ran along the road, and he made such haste that the stars were only just beginning to come out when he reached the cave of the Holy Man.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	clattered	clatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	along	along	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	36	compound	_	_
36	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clatter** | participle | cock's heavy wooden shoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | cock's heavy wooden shoes |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | past | cock | such haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |
| 4 | **begin** | past · progressive | the stars |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come out** | to-infinitive | the stars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **reach** | past | cock | the cave of the Holy Man |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=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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