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title: “How DID you get under that rock?” asked they, making a ring round h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “How DID you get under that rock?” asked they, making a ring round him; but they had to repeat their question several times before the wolverine would answer, for he, like many other persons, found it hard to confess that he had brought his troubles on himself. Who acts: you, sorts, wolverine, quest
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 81

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“How DID you get under that rock?” asked they, making a ring round him; but they had to repeat their question several times before the wolverine would answer, for he, like many other persons, found it hard to confess that he had brought his troubles on himself.

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**Who acts:** you, sorts, wolverine, question · **What happens:** get, ask, make, have, repeat, answer · **To what, where:** rock, ring, question, troubles · **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 (you, sorts, wolverine, question), 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:pg3282:16:81
# text = “How DID you get under that rock?” asked they, making a ring round him; but they had to repeat their question several times before the wolverine would answer, for he, like many other persons, found it hard to confess that he had brought his troubles on himself.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	DID	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	confess	confess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	ccomp	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past · do-support | you |  |  | that rock |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | sorts *= sort* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | sorts *= sort* *not said here* | a ring |  |  |  | round rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | sorts *= sort* |  |  |  |  | for many other persons | tree rules |
| 5 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | sorts *= sort* *not said here* | sorts's question |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would | the wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **find** | past | sorts *= sort* *not said here* | question |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 8 | **confess** | to-infinitive | question *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **bring** | past · perfect | Wolverine | Wolverine's troubles |  |  |  | on Wolverine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on himself=Destination |
| 10 | **question** |  | sorts *= sort* |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **trouble** |  | Wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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