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title: “It must feel quite different to be a bee from what it does to be a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “It must feel quite different to be a bee from what it does to be a lion or bear,” thought the boy to himself when he had walked for an hour or two. Who acts: It, hair, boy, bee. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 38

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“It must feel quite different to be a bee from what it does to be a lion or bear,” thought the boy to himself when he had walked for an hour or two.

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**Who acts:** It, hair, boy, bee · **What happens:** feel, be, do, think, walk · **To what, where:** bee, lion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (It, hair, boy, bee), 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:pg3282:18:38
# text = “It must feel quite different to be a bee from what it does to be a lion or bear,” thought the boy to himself when he had walked for an hour or two.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | must | It |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a bee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present | hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a lion or bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the boy |  | bee |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **walk** | past · perfect | bee |  |  |  | hour |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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