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title: For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the country, and food grew very scarce; so, one morning, after a night of snow, when the tracks of beasts might be easily seen, the three boys started off to hunt. Who acts: animals, food, three boys. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Bo
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43

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For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the country, and food grew very scarce; so, one morning, after a night of snow, when the tracks of beasts might be easily seen, the three boys started off to hunt.

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**Who acts:** animals, food, three boys · **What happens:** seem, leave, grow, see, start off, hunt · **To what, where:** part, tracks

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, food, three boys), 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:pg3282:14:43
# text = For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the country, and food grew very scarce; so, one morning, after a night of snow, when the tracks of beasts might be easily seen, the three boys started off to hunt.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	43	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
49	off	off	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | all animals |  |  |  | morning; night | for some reason | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive · perfect | all animals *not said here* | that part of the country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past | food |  |  |  |  | scarce *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | might · passive |  | the tracks of beasts |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **start off** | past | the three boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the three boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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