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title: The way home seemed short and easy to him, and he went to bed happy,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The way home seemed short and easy to him, and he went to bed happy, and resolved never to go out robbing again. Who acts: way, Lee. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 72

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The way home seemed short and easy to him, and he went to bed happy, and resolved never to go out robbing again.

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**Who acts:** way, Lee · **What happens:** seem, go, resolve, not go out, rob · **To what, where:** bed

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Lee), 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:pg7277:31:72
# text = The way home seemed short and easy to him, and he went to bed happy, and resolved never to go out robbing again.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	robbing	rob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the way |  |  |  |  | home, short *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Lee |  |  | bed |  | happy *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go out** | to-infinitive | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rob** | gerund | the way *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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