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title: One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turni… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turning a corner, he suddenly saw a large rock. 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 60

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One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turning a corner, he suddenly saw a large rock.

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**Who acts:** wolverine · **What happens:** walk, turn, see · **To what, where:** hill side, corner, large rock

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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:pg3282:16:60
# text = One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turning a corner, he suddenly saw a large rock.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | a wolverine |  |  | the hill side | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | a wolverine *not said here* | a corner |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Wolverine | a large rock |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus |

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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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