--- title: “Oh, not far off,” answered he; “I just stuck my tail in the stream… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, not far off,” answered he; “I just stuck my tail in the stream close by the place where the elves dwell, and the fish hung on to it of itself.” Who acts: I, elves, fish. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/65/) [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/) / 65 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 65 “Oh, not far off,” answered he; “I just stuck my tail in the stream close by the place where the elves dwell, and the fish hung on to it of itself.” **Who acts:** I, elves, fish · **What happens:** answer, stick, dwell, hang on · **To what, where:** snow, tail, stream, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, elves, fish), 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:pg3282:26:65 # text = “Oh, not far off,” answered he; “I just stuck my tail in the stream close by the place where the elves dwell, and the fish hung on to it of itself.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 6 off off ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 elves elf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dwell dwell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | snow | | | off *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stick** *in a quote* | past | I | my tail | | the stream | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in stream=Destination | | 3 | **dwell** *in a quote* | present | the elves | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hang on** *in a quote* | past | the fish | | place | | | of place | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/66/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/26/)