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title: The more he thought of it the more sulky he grew, and in the morning… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The more he thought of it the more sulky he grew, and in the morning, when the lion said that it was time for them to start to hunt, the cat told him that he might kill the bear and snake by himself, as HE had a headache, and would rather stay at home. Who acts: bear, sulky, lion, temper. A sentence
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 106

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The more he thought of it the more sulky he grew, and in the morning, when the lion said that it was time for them to start to hunt, the cat told him that he might kill the bear and snake by himself, as HE had a headache, and would rather stay at home.

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**Who acts:** bear, sulky, lion, temper, cat, HE · **What happens:** think, grow, say, be, start, hunt · **To what, where:** time, bear, headache, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bear, sulky, lion, temper), 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:pg3282:28:106
# text = The more he thought of it the more sulky he grew, and in the morning, when the lion said that it was time for them to start to hunt, the cat told him that he might kill the bear and snake by himself, as HE had a headache, and would rather stay at home.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	ccomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	HE	HE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | bear |  |  |  |  | of temper | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the sulky |  |  |  | morning |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | temper | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the cat |  | bear |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **kill** | might | bear | the bear and snake |  |  |  | by bear | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | past | HE | a headache |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient |
| 10 | **stay** | would | the sulky *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |

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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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