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title: So as he had now been walking the whole day and had not brought anyt… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So as he had now been walking the whole day and had not brought anything to eat away with him, he was frightfully hungry. Who acts: Halvor. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 14

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So as he had now been walking the whole day and had not brought anything to eat away with him, he was frightfully hungry.

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**Who acts:** Halvor · **What happens:** walk, not bring, eat away, be · **To what, where:** anything

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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:pg540:6:14
# text = So as he had now been walking the whole day and had not brought anything to eat away with him, he was frightfully hungry.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect · progressive | Halvor |  |  |  | now; day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bring** | past · perfect | Halvor *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 3 | **eat away** | to-infinitive | Halvor *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  | with Halvor; away *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Halvor |  |  |  |  | frightfully, hungry *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 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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