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title: He had walked a long way and suddenly the bundle seemed to grow heav… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had walked a long way and suddenly the bundle seemed to grow heavier; first he put it down under a tree, and next he thought he would look at it. Who acts: son, bundle. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 47

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He had walked a long way and suddenly the bundle seemed to grow heavier; first he put it down under a tree, and next he thought he would look at it.

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**Who acts:** son, bundle · **What happens:** walk, seem, grow, put down, think, look · **To what, where:** long way, bundle, tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, bundle), 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:pg3454:28:47
# text = He had walked a long way and suddenly the bundle seemed to grow heavier; first he put it down under a tree, and next he thought he would look at it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	next	next	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | son | a long way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the bundle | a long way *not said here* |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the bundle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put down** | past | son | bundle |  | a tree |  | first *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | son |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | would | son |  |  |  |  | at bundle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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