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title: So for many days the man lay hidden, waiting for the Tanuki to come… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So for many days the man lay hidden, waiting for the Tanuki to come by, and when one morning he marched up the road thinking of nothing but the dinner he was going to steal, the peasant threw himself upon him and bound his four legs tightly, so that he could not move. Who acts: man, peasant. A sente
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 8

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So for many days the man lay hidden, waiting for the Tanuki to come by, and when one morning he marched up the road thinking of nothing but the dinner he was going to steal, the peasant threw himself upon him and bound his four legs tightly, so that he could not move.

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**Who acts:** man, peasant · **What happens:** lie, hide, wait, come by, march up, think · **To what, where:** road, peasant, four legs

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, peasant), 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:pg5615:4:8
# text = So for many days the man lay hidden, waiting for the Tanuki to come by, and when one morning he marched up the road thinking of nothing but the dinner he was going to steal, the peasant threw himself upon him and bound his four legs tightly, so that he could not move.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obl	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	bound	bind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
49	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
50	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	57	mark	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	fixed	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the man |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | participle | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Tanuki | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come by** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **march up** | past | peasant | the road |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go** | past · progressive | peasant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **steal** | to-infinitive | peasant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **throw** | past | the peasant | peasant |  |  |  | upon friendship | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon he=Destination |
| 10 | **bind** | past | the peasant *not said here* | peasant's four legs |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 11 | **not** **move** | could | peasant |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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