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title: It burnt up in an instant, and caught the bands of willow and the be… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It burnt up in an instant, and caught the bands of willow and the bear’s rough hair; but he did not stir, for he thought that the fox was rubbing the bright colours into his skin, and that he would soon be as beautiful as a whole meadow of flowers. Who acts: fire, fox. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 6

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It burnt up in an instant, and caught the bands of willow and the bear’s rough hair; but he did not stir, for he thought that the fox was rubbing the bright colours into his skin, and that he would soon be as beautiful as a whole meadow of flowers.

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**Who acts:** fire, fox · **What happens:** burnt up, catch, not stir, think, rub, be · **To what, where:** instant, bands, bright colours, skin

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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 (fire, 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:pg3282:27:6
# text = It burnt up in an instant, and caught the bands of willow and the bear’s rough hair; but he did not stir, for he thought that the fox was rubbing the bright colours into his skin, and that he would soon be as beautiful as a whole meadow of flowers.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
46	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt up** | past | fire |  |  | a instant |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | fire *not said here* | the bands of willow and the bear's rough hair |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **stir** | past · do-support | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rub** | past · progressive | the fox | the bright colours |  | fox's skin |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme into skin=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | would | fox |  |  |  |  | as a whole meadow of flowers; beautiful, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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