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title: But Simon, after wandering about the market for some time with his t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Simon, after wandering about the market for some time with his three friends and some others he had picked up, returned home to his house. Who acts: Simon, time. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 58

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But Simon, after wandering about the market for some time with his three friends and some others he had picked up, returned home to his house.

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**Who acts:** Simon, time · **What happens:** wonder, pick up, return · **To what, where:** Simon

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, time), 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:pg7277:26:58
# text = But Simon, after wandering about the market for some time with his three friends and some others he had picked up, returned home to his house.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Simon *not said here* |  |  |  | time | about the market | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about market=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pick up** | past · perfect · passive | some time with Simon's three friends and some others *not said here* | Simon |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **return** | past | Simon |  |  |  |  | to Simon's house *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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