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title: It shrank away into a corner and gazed at him from there, and, in sp… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It shrank away into a corner and gazed at him from there, and, in spite of being so famished, did not dare to touch him, but sucked its own paws from sheer hunger. Who acts: bear, spite. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree a
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 88

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It shrank away into a corner and gazed at him from there, and, in spite of being so famished, did not dare to touch him, but sucked its own paws from sheer hunger.

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**Who acts:** bear, spite · **What happens:** shrink away, gaze, famish, not dare, not touch, suck · **To what, where:** corner, spite, shepherd, own paws, sheer hunger

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, spite), 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:pg2435:3:88
# text = It shrank away into a corner and gazed at him from there, and, in spite of being so famished, did not dare to touch him, but sucked its own paws from sheer hunger.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	famished	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sucked	suck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink away** | past | bear |  |  |  |  | into a corner *result*; away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into corner=Result |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at shepherd | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **famish** | gerund · passive |  | spite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | spite |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **touch** | to-infinitive | spite *not said here* | shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **suck** | past | bear *not said here* | bear's own paws |  | sheer hunger |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paw=Theme from hunger=Source |

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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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