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title: The bear took his crossbow from his neck and shot the reindeer in th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bear took his crossbow from his neck and shot the reindeer in the chin; and, from that day to this, every reindeer has a mark in that same spot, which is always known as the bear’s arrow. Who acts: bear, reindeer. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 43

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The bear took his crossbow from his neck and shot the reindeer in the chin; and, from that day to this, every reindeer has a mark in that same spot, which is always known as the bear’s arrow.

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**Who acts:** bear, reindeer · **What happens:** take, shoot, have, know · **To what, where:** crossbow, neck, reindeer, chin, mark, same spot

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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 (bear, reindeer), 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:pg3282:27:43
# text = The bear took his crossbow from his neck and shot the reindeer in the chin; and, from that day to this, every reindeer has a mark in that same spot, which is always known as the bear’s arrow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	crossbow	crossbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
37	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	38	advmod	_	_
38	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the bear | fox's crossbow |  | fox's neck |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent crossbow=Theme from neck=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | the bear *not said here* | the reindeer |  | the chin |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme in chin=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | present | every reindeer | a mark |  | that same spot | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | that same spot |  |  |  | as the bear's arrow; always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as arrow=Attribute |

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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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