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title: At the end of that time he came back from hunting one night and foun… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of that time he came back from hunting one night and found some wood by the door and a fire within. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dead Wife(20), sentence 10

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At the end of that time he came back from hunting one night and found some wood by the door and a fire within.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** come back, hunt, find · **To what, where:** end, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dead Wife(20). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg640:27:10
# text = At the end of that time he came back from hunting one night and found some wood by the door and a fire within.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | husband |  |  |  | at the end of that time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | husband *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | husband *not said here* | some wood |  |  |  | by the door and a fire | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Topic |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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