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title: The fox grew crosser than ever, and he was just turning away in disg… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fox grew crosser than ever, and he was just turning away in disgust from his place when he heard the sound of feet coming over the snow. Who acts: fox, Contes, sound. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 48

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The fox grew crosser than ever, and he was just turning away in disgust from his place when he heard the sound of feet coming over the snow.

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**Who acts:** fox, Contes, sound · **What happens:** grow, turn away, hear, come · **To what, where:** disgust, sound, snow

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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 (fox, Contes, sound), 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:pg3282:26:48
# text = The fox grew crosser than ever, and he was just turning away in disgust from his place when he heard the sound of feet coming over the snow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	crosser	cross	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the fox |  |  |  |  | cross *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn away** | past · progressive | Contes |  |  | disgust |  | from Contes's place; away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source |
| 3 | **hear** | past | Contes | the sound of feet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | the sound of feet *not said here* |  |  | the snow |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over snow=Initial\_Location |

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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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