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title: Sadly he returned to his room, and with bent head sat brooding over… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sadly he returned to his room, and with bent head sat brooding over his cruel fate till evening. Who acts: monster. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 87

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Sadly he returned to his room, and with bent head sat brooding over his cruel fate till evening.

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**Who acts:** monster · **What happens:** return, sit, brood, fate · **To what, where:** cruel fate

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monster), 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:pg7277:27:87
# text = Sadly he returned to his room, and with bent head sat brooding over his cruel fate till evening.
1	Sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	brooding	brood	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | monster |  |  |  |  | to monster's room *result*; sadly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
| 2 | **sit** | past | monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with bent head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **brood** | gerund | monster *not said here* |  |  | monster's cruel fate till evening |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fate** |  | monster |  |  |  | till evening |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent till=obl |

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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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