--- title: While he was looking at the guests and thinking how much handsomer a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: While he was looking at the guests and thinking how much handsomer and stronger he was than any of them, a rope was suddenly flung over his head, and he was thrown down and a bit thrust between his teeth. Who acts: stronger. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/) / 35 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 35 While he was looking at the guests and thinking how much handsomer and stronger he was than any of them, a rope was suddenly flung over his head, and he was thrown down and a bit thrust between his teeth. **Who acts:** stronger · **What happens:** look, think, fling, throw down · **To what, where:** rope, head, stronger 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 (stronger), 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:pg3282:21:35 # text = While he was looking at the guests and thinking how much handsomer and stronger he was than any of them, a rope was suddenly flung over his head, and he was thrown down and a bit thrust between his teeth. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 12 handsomer handsome ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 ccomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 flung fling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 35 down down ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 thrust thrust NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 40 between between ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past · progressive | stronger *= strong* | | | | | at the guests | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at guest=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | stronger *= strong* *not said here* | | | | | than any | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fling** | past · passive | | a rope | | stronger's head | | suddenly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over head=Destination | | 4 | **throw down** | past · passive | | stronger *= strong* | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/36/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/)