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title: When I pass this way again I will bring you a handful of corn, as a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I pass this way again I will bring you a handful of corn, as a reward”; and he ran off as smart as ever, leaving the mouse quite grateful behind him. Who acts: I, Wolverine. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 115

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When I pass this way again I will bring you a handful of corn, as a reward”; and he ran off as smart as ever, leaving the mouse quite grateful behind him.

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**Who acts:** I, Wolverine · **What happens:** pass, bring, run off, leave · **To what, where:** way, handful, you, mouse

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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 (I, 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:pg3282:16:115
# text = When I pass this way again I will bring you a handful of corn, as a reward”; and he ran off as smart as ever, leaving the mouse quite grateful behind him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **pass** | present | I | this way |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **bring** | future | I | a handful of corn | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination handful=Theme |
| 3 | **run off** *in a quote* | past | Wolverine |  |  |  |  | smart *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | gerund | Wolverine *not said here* | the mouse |  |  |  | grateful *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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