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title: They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the third at the spot where they had parted from him. Who acts: boys. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 47

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They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the third at the spot where they had parted from him.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** take up, carry, meet, part · **To what, where:** bear, arrow, home, third, spot

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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 (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:pg3282:14:47
# text = They both took up the bear, and carried it towards home, meeting the third at the spot where they had parted from him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	parted	part	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past | boys *= boy* | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | boys *= boy* *not said here* | arrow |  | home |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards home=Destination |
| 3 | **meet** | gerund | boys *= boy* *not said here* | the third |  | the spot |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **part** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | from bear | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from he=Co-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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