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title: Not thinking any harm, the youth jumped back on shore and made his w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not thinking any harm, the youth jumped back on shore and made his way up the steep hank. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 13

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Not thinking any harm, the youth jumped back on shore and made his way up the steep hank.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** not think, jump back, make · **To what, where:** harm, shore, way

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg3282:20:13
# text = Not thinking any harm, the youth jumped back on shore and made his way up the steep hank.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hank	hank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the youth *not said here* | any harm |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot harm=Theme |
| 2 | **jump back** | past | the youth |  |  | shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory |
| 3 | **make** | past | the youth *not said here* | shore's way |  |  |  | up the steep hank | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |

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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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