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title: At last, after thinking hard, he decided upon something, and going u… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, after thinking hard, he decided upon something, and going up to the bear, he exclaimed: “Is that you, my sister?” 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 120

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At last, after thinking hard, he decided upon something, and going up to the bear, he exclaimed: “Is that you, my sister?”

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**Who acts:** Wolverine · **What happens:** think, decide, go up, exclaim, be · **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 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:pg3282:16:120
# text = At last, after thinking hard, he decided upon something, and going up to the bear, he exclaimed: “Is that you, my sister?”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	that	that	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | past | Wolverine |  |  |  |  | upon something | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go up** | gerund | Wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bear | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | that you | tree rules |

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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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