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title: One hot summer morning, the old man was walking slowly under the coo… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One hot summer morning, the old man was walking slowly under the cool shadows of the big trees, and without thinking where he was going, he entered a bamboo thicket. Who acts: old man, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 68

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One hot summer morning, the old man was walking slowly under the cool shadows of the big trees, and without thinking where he was going, he entered a bamboo thicket.

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**Who acts:** old man, man · **What happens:** walk, think, go, enter, shadow · **To what, where:** cool shadows, bamboo thicket, big trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, 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:pg5615:36:68
# text = One hot summer morning, the old man was walking slowly under the cool shadows of the big trees, and without thinking where he was going, he entered a bamboo thicket.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | the old man |  |  | the cool shadows of the big trees | morning | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shadow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past | man | a bamboo thicket |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thicket=Destination |
| 5 | **shadow** |  |  | the big trees |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=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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