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title: The notion of going to bed supperless was very unpleasant to him, an… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The notion of going to bed supperless was very unpleasant to him, and he was wondering what in the world he should do, when he chanced to meet with his old friend the bear. Who acts: notion, fox. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its depende
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 100

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The notion of going to bed supperless was very unpleasant to him, and he was wondering what in the world he should do, when he chanced to meet with his old friend the bear.

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**Who acts:** notion, fox · **What happens:** go, be, wonder, do, chance, meet · **To what, where:** bed, fox, world, bear · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notion, fox), 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:pg2435:24:100
# text = The notion of going to bed supperless was very unpleasant to him, and he was wondering what in the world he should do, when he chanced to meet with his old friend the bear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	supperless	supperless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | the notion *not said here* |  |  | bed |  | supperless *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the notion |  | fox |  |  | unpleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | should | fox |  |  | the world |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **chance** | past | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* | the bear |  |  |  | with fox's old friend | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme with friend=Instrument |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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