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title: He saw a pretty, clear little brook running along not far from their… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw a pretty, clear little brook running along not far from their resting-place, and hearing that its source was not far distant, he started off to find it. Who acts: Prince, pretty clear little brook, source. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 62

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He saw a pretty, clear little brook running along not far from their resting-place, and hearing that its source was not far distant, he started off to find it.

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**Who acts:** Prince, pretty clear little brook, source · **What happens:** see, run along, not be, start off, find · **To what, where:** pretty clear little brook, hearing, source

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, pretty clear little brook, source), 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:pg7128:27:62
# text = He saw a pretty, clear little brook running along not far from their resting-place, and hearing that its source was not far distant, he started off to find it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Prince | a pretty clear little brook |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brook=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run along** | gerund | a pretty clear little brook *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along, far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | hearing's source | hearing *not said here* |  |  |  | distant, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **start off** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | source |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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