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title: They drove on a little further, when some noise in the forest made t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They drove on a little further, when some noise in the forest made the man turn his head, just in time to see the fox fall with a heavy thump on to the frozen snow. Who acts: Fox, noise, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 56

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They drove on a little further, when some noise in the forest made the man turn his head, just in time to see the fox fall with a heavy thump on to the frozen snow.

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**Who acts:** Fox, noise, man · **What happens:** drive, make, turn, see, fall, freeze · **To what, where:** head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, noise, man), 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:pg3282:26:56
# text = They drove on a little further, when some noise in the forest made the man turn his head, just in time to see the fox fall with a heavy thump on to the frozen snow.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
6	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | some noise in the forest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive | the man | man's head |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fall** | infinitive | the fox |  |  |  |  | with a heavy thump | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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