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title: At this moment the second brother came up—for the mountain had been… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this moment the second brother came up—for the mountain had been left open on purpose to tempt him also—and cried out breathlessly: “Don’t you see that the bear is lying close to you? Who acts: second brother, you, bear. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 79

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At this moment the second brother came up—for the mountain had been left open on purpose to tempt him also—and cried out breathlessly: “Don’t you see that the bear is lying close to you?

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**Who acts:** second brother, you, bear · **What happens:** come up, leave, tempt, cry out, do, not see · **To what, where:** purpose, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (second brother, you, 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:pg3282:14:79
# text = At this moment the second brother came up—for the mountain had been left open on purpose to tempt him also—and cried out breathlessly: “Don’t you see that the bear is lying close to you?
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	tempt	tempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	breathlessly	breathlessly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	ccomp	_	_
39	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | the second brother |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive | the second brother *not said here* |  |  | purpose |  | for the mountain; open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: on purpose=Location |
| 3 | **tempt** | to-infinitive | the second brother *not said here* |  | brother |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | breathlessly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **lie** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the bear |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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