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title: As soon as they came to the wood Walter looked cautiously around him… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as they came to the wood Walter looked cautiously around him to see perchance there was a wolf in the bushes, and he did not omit to ask Jonas if wolves were afraid of a drum. Who acts: ears, Walter, wolves. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, w
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 127

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As soon as they came to the wood Walter looked cautiously around him to see perchance there was a wolf in the bushes, and he did not omit to ask Jonas if wolves were afraid of a drum.

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**Who acts:** ears, Walter, wolves · **What happens:** come, look, see, not omit, ask, be · **To what, where:** wood, perchance, Jonas

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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 (ears, Walter, wolves), 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:pg3454:7:127
# text = As soon as they came to the wood Walter looked cautiously around him to see perchance there was a wolf in the bushes, and he did not omit to ask Jonas if wolves were afraid of a drum.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	around	around	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	perchance	perchance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	omit	omit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | ears *= ear* |  |  | the wood |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | Walter |  |  |  |  | around Caro; cautiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Walter *not said here* | perchance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perchance=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **omit** | past · do-support | Walter |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Walter *not said here* |  | Jonas |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jonas=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | wolves |  |  |  |  | of a drum; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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