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title: But the father paid no heed to what the rabbit said, and only walked… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the father paid no heed to what the rabbit said, and only walked on the faster, bidding Thakane to keep close behind him. Who acts: father, rabbit. 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 91

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But the father paid no heed to what the rabbit said, and only walked on the faster, bidding Thakane to keep close behind him.

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**Who acts:** father, rabbit · **What happens:** pay, say, walk, bid, keep · **To what, where:** heed, faster, Thakane · **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 (father, rabbit), 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:pg3282:15:91
# text = But the father paid no heed to what the rabbit said, and only walked on the faster, bidding Thakane to keep close behind him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the father | no heed |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk** | past | the father *not said here* |  |  | the faster |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fast=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bid** | gerund | the father *not said here* | Thakane |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind Thakane; close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=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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