--- title: For the rest of the day he remained a bear and continued his journey… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For the rest of the day he remained a bear and continued his journey, but as evening came on the bear-skin, which had been so useful when plunging through brambles in the forest, felt rather heavy, and he wished himself a boy again. Who acts: bear, bear skin. 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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 (bear, bear skin), 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:pg3282:18:27 # text = For the rest of the day he remained a bear and continued his journey, but as evening came on the bear-skin, which had been so useful when plunging through brambles in the forest, felt rather heavy, and he wished himself a boy again. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 plunging plunge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 brambles bramble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 40 rather rather ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 46 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 obj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 again again ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remain** | past | bear | a bear | | | | for the rest of the day | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bear=Attribute | | 2 | **continue** | past | bear *not said here* | bear's journey | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | | | | the bear skin | evening | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Location | | 4 | **is** | past · perfect | the bear skin | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **plunge** | gerund | the bear skin *not said here* | | | brambles | | in the forest | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute | | 6 | **feel** | past | | | | | | heavy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **wish** | past | bear | bear | | | again | | tree rules | | 8 | **journey** | | bear | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/28/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/)