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title: As he came along, the bear chief’s sister was looking out of the win… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he came along, the bear chief’s sister was looking out of the window, and took pity on this little brother, as she had on the two elder ones, and waited to see what the boy would do, when he found that the bear servant and the dog had already entered the mountain. Who acts: dog, sister, boy. A se
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 10

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As he came along, the bear chief’s sister was looking out of the window, and took pity on this little brother, as she had on the two elder ones, and waited to see what the boy would do, when he found that the bear servant and the dog had already entered the mountain.

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**Who acts:** dog, sister, boy · **What happens:** come along, look out, take, have, wait, see · **To what, where:** window, pity, bear servant · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, sister, boy), 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:pg3282:15:10
# text = As he came along, the bear chief’s sister was looking out of the window, and took pity on this little brother, as she had on the two elder ones, and waited to see what the boy would do, when he found that the bear servant and the dog had already entered the mountain.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	43	obj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	already	already	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	ccomp	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | past | dog |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look out** | past · progressive | the bear chief's sister | the window |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | dog *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | on this little brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on brother=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | sister |  |  |  |  | on the two elder ones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wait** | past | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | would | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 8 | **find** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bear servant and the dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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