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title: In another moment something passed swiftly through the air and a lio… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In another moment something passed swiftly through the air and a lion stood before him. Who acts: something. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 109

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In another moment something passed swiftly through the air and a lion stood before him.

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**Who acts:** something · **What happens:** pass, stand · **To what, where:** air

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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:pg3282:17:109
# text = In another moment something passed swiftly through the air and a lion stood before him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  | the air and a lion |  | swiftly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | something |  |  |  | before least |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |

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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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