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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 23

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The bear sank down with a groan, and as her eyes were full of cranberry juice, which completely blinded her, the wolverine took up a sharp knife and stabbed her to the heart.

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**Who acts:** bear, eyes, wolverine · **What happens:** sink down, be, blind, take up, stab · **To what, where:** cranberry juice, sharp knife, bear

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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 (bear, eyes, wolverine), 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:pg3282:17:23
# text = The bear sank down with a groan, and as her eyes were full of cranberry juice, which completely blinded her, the wolverine took up a sharp knife and stabbed her to the heart.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	cranberry	cranberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	blinded	blind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stabbed	stab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink down** | past | the bear |  |  |  |  | with a groan; down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with groan=Instrument |
| 2 | **is** | past | bear's eyes |  |  |  |  | of cranberry juice; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **blind** | past |  | cranberry juice |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take up** | past | the wolverine | a sharp knife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 5 | **stab** | past | the wolverine *not said here* | bear |  |  |  | to the heart *result* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to heart=Result |

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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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