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title: The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but his sister and all that belonged to her were spared because she had tried to save the two elder boys from punishment. Who acts: sister. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its de
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 20

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The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but his sister and all that belonged to her were spared because she had tried to save the two elder boys from punishment.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** burnt up, belong, spare, try, save · **To what, where:** bear chief, flames, sister, two elder boys, punishment

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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 (sister), 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:pg3282:15:20
# text = The bear chief and all his servants were burnt up in the flames, but his sister and all that belonged to her were spared because she had tried to save the two elder boys from punishment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt up** | past · passive |  | the bear chief and chief's servants |  | the flames |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | past | chief's sister |  | sister |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spare** | past · passive |  | chief's sister |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
| 4 | **try** | past · perfect | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **save** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* | the two elder boys |  | punishment |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent boy=Theme from punishment=Source |

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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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