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title: When the wolverine, who was very particular about his clothes, came… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the wolverine, who was very particular about his clothes, came to put it on, he grew very angry. Who acts: wolverine. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 100

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When the wolverine, who was very particular about his clothes, came to put it on, he grew very angry.

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**Who acts:** wolverine · **What happens:** be, come, put on, grow · **To what, where:** accident

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolverine), 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:pg3282:16:100
# text = When the wolverine, who was very particular about his clothes, came to put it on, he grew very angry.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wolverine |  |  |  |  | about Wolverine's clothes; particular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **put on** | to-infinitive | the wolverine *not said here* | accident |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **grow** | past | Wolverine |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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