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title: After he had walked some distance he grew both tired and hungry, so… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After he had walked some distance he grew both tired and hungry, so he sat down on the east side of a mound and began to eat his dry bread. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 94

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After he had walked some distance he grew both tired and hungry, so he sat down on the east side of a mound and began to eat his dry bread.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** walk, grow, sit down, begin, eat · **To what, where:** distance, east side, dry bread

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg5615:16:94
# text = After he had walked some distance he grew both tired and hungry, so he sat down on the east side of a mound and began to eat his dry bread.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · perfect | man | some distance |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory |
| 2 | **grow** | past | man |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | man |  |  | the east side of a mound |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | man's dry bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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