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title: For the moment the dog ran round the bushes barking loudly, the litt… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For the moment the dog ran round the bushes barking loudly, the little bear servant rushed out in a fright, and set out for the mountains as fast as he could. Who acts: dog, bushes. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 4

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For the moment the dog ran round the bushes barking loudly, the little bear servant rushed out in a fright, and set out for the mountains as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** dog, bushes · **What happens:** run, bark, rush out, set out · **To what, where:** little bear servant, bushes, fright

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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, bushes), 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:pg3282:15:4
# text = For the moment the dog ran round the bushes barking loudly, the little bear servant rushed out in a fright, and set out for the mountains as fast as he could.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the dog | the little bear servant |  | the bushes | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round bush=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bark** | gerund | the bushes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rush out** | participle |  | the little bear servant *not said here* |  | a fright |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory |
| 4 | **set out** | past | the dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the mountains; fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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