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title: The boy was rather indignant at the bear’s cool way of talking; but… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy was rather indignant at the bear’s cool way of talking; but as he was too tired to gather more fern, they lay down side by side, and never stirred till sunrise next morning. Who acts: boy, cool way, bear, ferns. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 19

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The boy was rather indignant at the bear’s cool way of talking; but as he was too tired to gather more fern, they lay down side by side, and never stirred till sunrise next morning.

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**Who acts:** boy, cool way, bear, ferns · **What happens:** be, talk, gather, lay down, not stir · **To what, where:** more fern, side

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, cool way, bear, ferns), 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:pg3282:18:19
# text = The boy was rather indignant at the bear’s cool way of talking; but as he was too tired to gather more fern, they lay down side by side, and never stirred till sunrise next morning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	indignant	indignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
36	till	till	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | indignant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | cool way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | bear |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **gather** | to-infinitive | bear *not said here* | more fern |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fern=Theme |
| 5 | **lay down** | present | ferns *= fern* | side |  |  |  | by side; down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **stir** | participle | ferns *= fern* *not said here* |  |  |  | morning; sunrise |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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