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title: Taking down a pistol, he loaded it and put it in his belt, and a lit… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking down a pistol, he loaded it and put it in his belt, and a little before midnight he stole out on the tips of his toes, so as to disturb nobody. Who acts: manner. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 9

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Taking down a pistol, he loaded it and put it in his belt, and a little before midnight he stole out on the tips of his toes, so as to disturb nobody.

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**Who acts:** manner · **What happens:** take down, load, put, steal out, disturb · **To what, where:** pistol, belt, little, tips, nobody

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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 (manner), 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:pg3282:11:9
# text = Taking down a pistol, he loaded it and put it in his belt, and a little before midnight he stole out on the tips of his toes, so as to disturb nobody.
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pistol	pistol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take down** | gerund | manner *not said here* | a pistol |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme |
| 2 | **load** | past | manner | pistol |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | manner *not said here* | pistol |  | manner's belt |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in belt=Destination |
| 4 | **steal out** | past | manner | a little |  | the tips of manner's toes | midnight |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tip=Location |
| 5 | **disturb** | to-infinitive | manner *not said here* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nobody=Experiencer |

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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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