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title: And every time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And every time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of the bear chief, with the marks of his wounds plainly to bee seen by the rest. Who acts: time, bear. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 61

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And every time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of the bear chief, with the marks of his wounds plainly to bee seen by the rest.

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**Who acts:** time, bear · **What happens:** kill, return, see, shadow, mark, wound · **To what, where:** bear, bee, wounds

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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 (time, bear), 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:pg3282:14:61
# text = And every time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of the bear chief, with the marks of his wounds plainly to bee seen by the rest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive | every time *not said here* | a bear |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer shadow=Result |
| 2 | **return** | past | every time |  |  |  |  | to the house of the bear chief *result*; with the marks of bear's wounds to bee | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  | bee *not said here* |  |  |  | by the rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **shadow** |  | bear |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **mark** |  |  | bear's wounds to bee |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **wound** |  | bear |  |  |  |  | to bee | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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