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title: The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continue… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continued their journey till they reached another tree with a woodpecker tapping on it. Who acts: bear, two, Fox, woodpecker. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 102

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The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continued their journey till they reached another tree with a woodpecker tapping on it.

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**Who acts:** bear, two, Fox, woodpecker · **What happens:** be, think, continue, reach, tap, journey · **To what, where:** journey, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, two, Fox, woodpecker), 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:pg3282:26:102
# text = The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continued their journey till they reached another tree with a woodpecker tapping on it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
15	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	tapping	tap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the bear |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  | of bear's supper | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **continue** | past | the two | Fox's journey |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 4 | **reach** | past | Fox | another tree |  |  |  | with a woodpecker | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 5 | **tap** | gerund | a woodpecker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on woodpecker | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on it=Patient |
| 6 | **journey** |  | Fox |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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