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description: Then he took off the skin, and, stealing some fire from a tent, which his sharp eyes had perceived hidden behind a rock, he set about roasting the bear bit by bit. Who acts: wolverine. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 24

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Then he took off the skin, and, stealing some fire from a tent, which his sharp eyes had perceived hidden behind a rock, he set about roasting the bear bit by bit.

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**Who acts:** wolverine · **What happens:** take off, steal, perceive, hide, set, roast · **To what, where:** skin, fire, tent, sharp eyes, rock, bear bit

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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 (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:pg3282:17:24
# text = Then he took off the skin, and, stealing some fire from a tent, which his sharp eyes had perceived hidden behind a rock, he set about roasting the bear bit by bit.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	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 | **take off** | past | wolverine | the skin |  |  | then |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund | wolverine *not said here* | some fire |  | a tent |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from tent=Source |
| 3 | **perceive** | past · perfect · passive |  | wolverine's sharp eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  | a rock |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind rock=Location |
| 5 | **set** | past | wolverine |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **roast** | gerund | wolverine *not said here* | the bear bit |  |  |  | by bit | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |

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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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