--- title: “I feel better now,” said the lion when he had done, “so now I shall… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I feel better now,” said the lion when he had done, “so now I shall go to sleep on this nice soft moss, and if you like you can lie down beside me.” Who acts: lion, you. 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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 (lion, you), 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:pg3282:17:114 # text = “I feel better now,” said the lion when he had done, “so now I shall go to sleep on this nice soft moss, and if you like you can lie down beside me.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 26 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 beside beside ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | the lion *= lion* | | | | now | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lion | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | lion | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | the lion *= lion* | | | | now | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **sleep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the lion *= lion* *not said here* | | | nice soft moss | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **lie down** *in a quote* | can | you | | | | | beside the lion *= lion* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location | 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: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/17/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/17/115/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/17/)