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title: One day he was wandering through a wood all by himself, thinking now… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he was wandering through a wood all by himself, thinking now of one thing, now of another, till there was nothing else left to think about. Who acts: musician, nothing. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 2

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One day he was wandering through a wood all by himself, thinking now of one thing, now of another, till there was nothing else left to think about.

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**Who acts:** musician, nothing · **What happens:** wonder, think, be, leave, think about · **To what, where:** wood

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musician, nothing), 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:pg540:50:2
# text = One day he was wandering through a wood all by himself, thinking now of one thing, now of another, till there was nothing else left to think about.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
27	else	else	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | musician |  |  | a wood | day | by musician; of another | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | musician *not said here* |  |  |  | now | of one thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think about** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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