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title: The dog followed the bear, and the boy followed the dog, until the m… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The dog followed the bear, and the boy followed the dog, until the mountain, the house of the great bear chief, came in sight. Who acts: dog, boy, mountain. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 5

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The dog followed the bear, and the boy followed the dog, until the mountain, the house of the great bear chief, came in sight.

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**Who acts:** dog, boy, mountain · **What happens:** follow, come · **To what, where:** bear, dog, sight

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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, boy, mountain), 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:pg3282:15:5
# text = The dog followed the bear, and the boy followed the dog, until the mountain, the house of the great bear chief, came in sight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	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	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the dog | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past | the boy | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the mountain |  |  | sight |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |

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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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