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title: Next the boy met the fox, whose lovely coat of silvery grey was shin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next the boy met the fox, whose lovely coat of silvery grey was shining in the sun. Who acts: boy, silvery grey. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 13

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Next the boy met the fox, whose lovely coat of silvery grey was shining in the sun.

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**Who acts:** boy, silvery grey · **What happens:** meet, shine · **To what, where:** fox, lovely coat, sun.

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, silvery grey), 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:pg3282:21:13
# text = Next the boy met the fox, whose lovely coat of silvery grey was shining in the sun.
1	Next	next	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the boy | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **shine** | past · progressive | silvery grey | the fox's lovely coat *not said here* |  | the sun. |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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