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title: When he saw the marks of snow-shoes along the path on the right he w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he saw the marks of snow-shoes along the path on the right he was filled with joy, not knowing that the servant had made some fresh tracks on purpose to mislead him; and he hastened forward so fast that he fell headlong into a pit, where the bear was sitting. Who acts: chief, bear. A sentence o
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 90

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When he saw the marks of snow-shoes along the path on the right he was filled with joy, not knowing that the servant had made some fresh tracks on purpose to mislead him; and he hastened forward so fast that he fell headlong into a pit, where the bear was sitting.

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**Who acts:** chief, bear · **What happens:** see, fill, not know, make, mislead, hasten · **To what, where:** marks, right, chief, servant, pit, snow shoes · **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 (chief, 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:pg3282:14:90
# text = When he saw the marks of snow-shoes along the path on the right he was filled with joy, not knowing that the servant had made some fresh tracks on purpose to mislead him; and he hastened forward so fast that he fell headlong into a pit, where the bear was sitting.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	mislead	mislead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	advcl	_	_
47	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | chief | the marks of snow shoes |  | the right |  | along the path | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | chief |  |  |  | with joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument |
| 3 | **not** **know** | gerund | chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the servant |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary track=Product |
| 5 | **mislead** | to-infinitive |  | chief |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **hasten** | past | chief |  |  |  |  | fast, forward *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **fall** | past | chief |  |  |  |  | into a pit *result*; headlong *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result |
| 8 | **sit** | past · progressive | the bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **mark** |  |  | snow shoes |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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