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title: So the fox drove on in peace till he reached the cave where all his… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the fox drove on in peace till he reached the cave where all his stores were kept, and then he began to wonder whom he could get to help him kill his reindeer, for though he could steal reindeer he was too small to kill them. Who acts: fox. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 40

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So the fox drove on in peace till he reached the cave where all his stores were kept, and then he began to wonder whom he could get to help him kill his reindeer, for though he could steal reindeer he was too small to kill them.

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** drive on, reach, keep, begin, wonder, get · **To what, where:** peace, cave, stores, fox, reindeer · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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:pg3282:27:40
# text = So the fox drove on in peace till he reached the cave where all his stores were kept, and then he began to wonder whom he could get to help him kill his reindeer, for though he could steal reindeer he was too small to kill them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	parataxis	_	_
42	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	too	too	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive on** | past | the fox |  |  | peace |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | past | fox | the cave |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past · passive |  | fox's stores |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | fox |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **get** | could | fox |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **help** | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* | fox |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 8 | **kill** | infinitive | fox *not said here* | fox's reindeer |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme |
| 9 | **steal** | could | fox | reindeer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reindeer=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | past | fox | reindeer *not said here* |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **kill** | to-infinitive | fox *not said here* | stores *= store* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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