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title: How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones Who acts: Wild Animals. 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 76

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How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones

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**Who acts:** Wild Animals · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** Tame Ones

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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 (Wild Animals), 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:pg3282:20:76
# text = How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	Became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | some Wild Animals | Tame Ones |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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