--- title: “After all, it will be quite easy,” thought he, and he bade a squirr… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “After all, it will be quite easy,” thought he, and he bade a squirrel, who was watching him on a tree close by, take a message to all the robber beasts of the forest, and in less than half an hour a great crashing of branches was heard, and bears, wolves, snakes, mice, frogs, and other creatures ca --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/41/) [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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/) / 41 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 41 “After all, it will be quite easy,” thought he, and he bade a squirrel, who was watching him on a tree close by, take a message to all the robber beasts of the forest, and in less than half an hour a great crashing of branches was heard, and bears, wolves, snakes, mice, frogs, and other creatures came pressing up to the cave. **Who acts:** fox, squirrel, other creatures · **What happens:** be, think, bade, watch, take, hear · **To what, where:** fox, squirrel, tree, message, robber beasts, great crashing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, squirrel, other creatures), 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:pg3282:27:41 # text = “After all, it will be quite easy,” thought he, and he bade a squirrel, who was watching him on a tree close by, take a message to all the robber beasts of the forest, and in less than half an hour a great crashing of branches was heard, and bears, wolves, snakes, mice, frogs, and other creatures came pressing up to the cave. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 expl _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 8 quite quite ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 12 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 robber robber NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 45 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 47 advmod _ _ 46 than than ADP IN _ 45 fixed _ _ 47 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 49 det:predet _ _ 48 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 crashing crashing NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj:pass _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nmod _ _ 55 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux:pass _ _ 56 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 59 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 61 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 65 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 67 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 69 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 70 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 71 amod _ _ 71 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 72 nsubj _ _ 72 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 73 pressing press VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 72 xcomp _ _ 74 up up ADP RP _ 73 compound:prt _ _ 75 to to ADP IN _ 77 case _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 77 det _ _ 77 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | fox | | | after all | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | | 3 | **bade** | past | fox | a squirrel | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **watch** | past · progressive | a squirrel | fox | | a tree | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | | a message | | all robber beasts of the forest | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to beast=Destination | | 6 | **hear** | past · passive | | a great crashing of branches | | | hour | bears and wolves and snakes and mice and frogs *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 7 | **come** | past | other creatures | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **press up** | gerund | other creatures *not said here* | | | | | to the cave | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/42/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/27/)