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title: How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves Who acts: Brave Walter. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 103

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How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves

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**Who acts:** Brave Walter · **What happens:** hunt · **To what, where:** Wolves

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Brave Walter), 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:pg3454:7:103
# text = How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	Brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | Brave Walter | Wolves |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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