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title: He was tired with a long day’s work, and stood with his hand on the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was tired with a long day’s work, and stood with his hand on the mane of one of the animals, waiting till they had done, and thinking all the while of Barbaik, when a voice came out of the gorse close by. Who acts: Jegu, animals, voice, long day. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 22

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He was tired with a long day’s work, and stood with his hand on the mane of one of the animals, waiting till they had done, and thinking all the while of Barbaik, when a voice came out of the gorse close by.

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**Who acts:** Jegu, animals, voice, long day · **What happens:** be, stand, wait, do, think, come out · **To what, where:** mane, gorse

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu, animals, voice, long day), 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:pg3454:37:22
# text = He was tired with a long day’s work, and stood with his hand on the mane of one of the animals, waiting till they had done, and thinking all the while of Barbaik, when a voice came out of the gorse close by.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	42	mark	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	gorse	gorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jegu |  |  |  |  | with a long day's work; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Jegu *not said here* |  |  | the mane of one of the animals |  | with Jegu's hand | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mane=Location |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | Jegu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Jegu *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come out** | past | a voice | the gorse |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient gorse=Result |
| 7 | **work** |  | a long day |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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