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title: And he called, and called, and called, till wolves and foxes and all… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And he called, and called, and called, till wolves and foxes and all sorts of other creatures all came running to see what was the matter. Who acts: Wolverine, sorts. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 80

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And he called, and called, and called, till wolves and foxes and all sorts of other creatures all came running to see what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** Wolverine, sorts · **What happens:** call, come, run, see, be, sort · **To what, where:** wolves, matter, other creatures · **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, sorts), 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:pg3282:16:80
# text = And he called, and called, and called, till wolves and foxes and all sorts of other creatures all came running to see what was the matter.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | participle | Wolverine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle | Wolverine *not said here* | wolves and foxes |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | all sorts of other creatures |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | all sorts of other creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | all sorts of other creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | other creatures |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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