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title: Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry spot, when suddenly Mansor stood still. Who acts: Chasid, passages, Mansor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 100

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Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry spot, when suddenly Mansor stood still.

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**Who acts:** Chasid, passages, Mansor · **What happens:** wander, seek, stand · **To what, where:** passages, dry spot

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chasid, passages, Mansor), 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:pg7277:7:100
# text = Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry spot, when suddenly Mansor stood still.
1	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Chasid and ruin's companion |  |  | the passages |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | the passages *not said here* | a dry spot |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | Mansor |  |  |  | still | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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