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title: After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a b… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a bright coloured woodpecker was tapping. Who acts: Fox, bright coloured woodpecker. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 96

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After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a bright coloured woodpecker was tapping.

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**Who acts:** Fox, bright coloured woodpecker · **What happens:** go, pass, tap · **To what, where:** way, tree stump

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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, bright coloured 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:pg3282:26:96
# text = After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a bright coloured woodpecker was tapping.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	stump	stump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	tapping	tap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Fox | some way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Fox | a tree stump |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stump=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tap** | past · progressive | a bright coloured woodpecker |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on which=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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