--- title: But before they had gone very far, the fox, who was near the edge, c… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But before they had gone very far, the fox, who was near the edge, contrived to slip over, and when the Laplander saw him stretched out on the snow he pulled up his reindeer and put the fox into one of the other sledges that was fastened behind, for it was market-day at the nearest town, and the man --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/55/) [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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/) / 55 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 55 But before they had gone very far, the fox, who was near the edge, contrived to slip over, and when the Laplander saw him stretched out on the snow he pulled up his reindeer and put the fox into one of the other sledges that was fastened behind, for it was market-day at the nearest town, and the man had much to sell. **Who acts:** Fox, driver, Laplander, man · **What happens:** go, be, contrive, slip over, stretch out, pull up · **To what, where:** fox, edge, reindeer, snow, other sledges, nearest town 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, driver, Laplander, man), 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:pg3282:26:55 # text = But before they had gone very far, the fox, who was near the edge, contrived to slip over, and when the Laplander saw him stretched out on the snow he pulled up his reindeer and put the fox into one of the other sledges that was fastened behind, for it was market-day at the nearest town, and the man had much to sell. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 2 before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 18 contrived contrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 slip slip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Laplander Laplander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 reindeer reindeer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 sledges sledge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 49 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 nsubj:pass _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux:pass _ _ 51 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 acl:relcl _ _ 52 behind behind ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 for for ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 cop _ _ 57 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 58 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 60 at at ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 62 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 63 amod _ _ 63 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nsubj _ _ 68 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 69 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 obj _ _ 70 to to PART TO _ 71 mark _ _ 71 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 69 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Fox | the fox | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the fox | | | the edge | | | tree rules | | 3 | **contrive** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **slip over** | to-infinitive | | | | | | over *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **stretch out** | past · passive | | driver's reindeer | | the snow | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» | | 6 | **pull up** | past | driver | the snow *not said here* | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme | | 7 | **put** | infinitive | | | the fox | | | into one of the other sledges | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Goal | | 8 | **fasten** | past · passive | | the other sledges | | | | behind *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 9 | **is** | past | Laplander | | | the nearest town | for market day | | tree rules | | 10 | **have** | past | the man | much | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | | 11 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/56/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/)