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title: But before Kisa could answer, Ingibjorg’s attendants arrived breathl… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But before Kisa could answer, Ingibjorg’s attendants arrived breathless on the scene, and were so horrified at the sight of a strange cat, that Kisa plunged into the bushes and went back to the forest. Who acts: Kisa, attendants. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy B
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 10

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But before Kisa could answer, Ingibjorg’s attendants arrived breathless on the scene, and were so horrified at the sight of a strange cat, that Kisa plunged into the bushes and went back to the forest.

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**Who acts:** Kisa, attendants · **What happens:** answer, arrive, horrify, plunge, go back, sight · **To what, where:** scene, sight, bushes, strange cat

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa, attendants), 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:pg3282:28:10
# text = But before Kisa could answer, Ingibjorg’s attendants arrived breathless on the scene, and were so horrified at the sight of a strange cat, that Kisa plunged into the bushes and went back to the forest.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	breathless	breathless	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	horrified	horrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	Kisa	Kisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | could | Kisa |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | Ingibjorg's attendants |  |  | the scene |  | breathless *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **horrify** | past · passive | Ingibjorg's attendants *not said here* |  |  | the sight of a strange cat |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **plunge** | past | Kisa |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **go back** | past | Kisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | a strange cat |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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