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title: Yes, there was one, right in the top of the tent, so, shaking himsel… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, there was one, right in the top of the tent, so, shaking himself, as if with fright, he let the end of his net unroll itself a little. Who acts: Hare, end. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 72

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Yes, there was one, right in the top of the tent, so, shaking himself, as if with fright, he let the end of his net unroll itself a little.

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**Who acts:** Hare, end · **What happens:** be, shake, let, unroll · **To what, where:** one, Hare, end

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, end), 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:pg3282:11:72
# text = Yes, there was one, right in the top of the tent, so, shaking himself, as if with fright, he let the end of his net unroll itself a little.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	unroll	unroll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
33	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | one |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund |  | Hare |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Hare |  |  |  |  | with fright | tree rules |
| 4 | **unroll** | infinitive | the end of Hare's net | end |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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