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title: A little while after the fox heard the buzzing of an early bee, whom… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A little while after the fox heard the buzzing of an early bee, whom a gleam of sun had tempted out. Who acts: little while. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 86

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A little while after the fox heard the buzzing of an early bee, whom a gleam of sun had tempted out.

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**Who acts:** little while · **What happens:** hear, tempt out · **To what, where:** buzzing, gleam

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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 (little while), 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:pg3282:27:86
# text = A little while after the fox heard the buzzing of an early bee, whom a gleam of sun had tempted out.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | a little while after the fox | the buzzing of a early bee |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer buzzing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tempt out** | past · perfect · passive |  | a gleam of sun |  |  |  | a early bee *obl* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |

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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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