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title: As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered what was left of the mountain, and the first thing he saw was his two brothers—half bear, half boy. Who acts: little hunter, hunter, first thing. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, wit
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 21

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As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered what was left of the mountain, and the first thing he saw was his two brothers—half bear, half boy.

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**Who acts:** little hunter, hunter, first thing · **What happens:** burnt out, enter, leave, see, be · **To what, where:** fire, first thing, two brothers

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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 (little hunter, hunter, first thing), 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:pg3282:15:21
# text = As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered what was left of the mountain, and the first thing he saw was his two brothers—half bear, half boy.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	33	amod	_	_
33	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	36	amod	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt out** | past · perfect |  | fire |  |  |  | as the fire; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | past | the little hunter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the mountain | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of mountain=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | past | hunter | the first thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the first thing | hunter's two brothers |  |  |  |  | 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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