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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 71

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Thinking that if he could manage to put on a spurt he would reach the forest of great trees at the bottom of the mountain, where the rock could not come, he gathered up all his strength, and instead of running he leaped over sticks and stones, but, whatever he did, the rock was always close behind him.

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**Who acts:** Wolverine, rock · **What happens:** think, manage, put, reach, not come, gather up · **To what, where:** forest, spurt, strength, sticks

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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, rock), 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:pg3282:16:71
# text = Thinking that if he could manage to put on a spurt he would reach the forest of great trees at the bottom of the mountain, where the rock could not come, he gathered up all his strength, and instead of running he leaped over sticks and stones, but, whatever he did, the rock was always close behind him.
1	Thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spurt	spurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	44	mark	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	parataxis	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
61	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	62	advmod	_	_
62	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	54	acl:relcl	_	_
63	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **manage** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | Wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **put** | to-infinitive | Wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | would | Wolverine | the forest of great trees at the bottom of the mountain |  | a spurt |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come** | could | the rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **gather up** | past | Wolverine | Wolverine's strength |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 7 | **run** | gerund | rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **leap** | past | rock |  |  | sticks and stones |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stick=Trajectory |
| 9 | **do** | past | rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | past | the rock |  |  |  |  | behind Wolverine; always, close *property* | 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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