--- title: The bear turned round and saw the wolverine, and murmuring to hersel… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The bear turned round and saw the wolverine, and murmuring to herself, so low that nobody could hear, “I never heard before that I had a brother,” got up and ran quickly to a tree, up which she climbed. Who acts: bear, nobody, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, nobody, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:17:1 # text = The bear turned round and saw the wolverine, and murmuring to herself, so low that nobody could hear, “I never heard before that I had a brother,” got up and ran quickly to a tree, up which she climbed. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 round round ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wolverine wolverine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 murmuring murmur VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 before before ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 obl _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 34 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 up up ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 obj _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn round** | past | the bear | | | | | round *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | the bear *not said here* | the wolverine | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolverine=Stimulus | | 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | the bear *not said here* | | bear | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 4 | **hear** | could | nobody | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | before that | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | I | a brother | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | | 7 | **get up** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **run** | past | | | | | | to a tree *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | | 9 | **climb** | past | bear | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location which=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/120/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/17/2/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/17/)