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title: Then he set forth for his father’s house, his mind dwelling on the f… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he set forth for his father’s house, his mind dwelling on the feast that would be awaiting him. Who acts: Jenik, mind, feast. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 30

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Then he set forth for his father’s house, his mind dwelling on the feast that would be awaiting him.

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**Who acts:** Jenik, mind, feast · **What happens:** set, dwell, await, mind · **To what, where:** feast, Jenik

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jenik, mind, feast), 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:pg7277:8:30
# text = Then he set forth for his father’s house, his mind dwelling on the feast that would be awaiting him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | Jenik |  |  |  | then | for Jenik's father's house; forth *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for house=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **dwell** | gerund | Jenik's mind *not said here* |  |  | the feast |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on feast=Location |
| 3 | **await** | would · progressive | the feast | Jenik |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Jenik |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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