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title: The little fellow knew quite well that the lion would not dare to go… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little fellow knew quite well that the lion would not dare to go out without him and his ball for fear of meeting a bear or a snake. Who acts: little fellow, lion, fear. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 107

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The little fellow knew quite well that the lion would not dare to go out without him and his ball for fear of meeting a bear or a snake.

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**Who acts:** little fellow, lion, fear · **What happens:** know, not dare, not go out, meet · **To what, where:** bear

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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 (little fellow, lion, fear), 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:pg3282:28:107
# text = The little fellow knew quite well that the lion would not dare to go out without him and his ball for fear of meeting a bear or a snake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the little fellow |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **dare** | would | the lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **go out** | to-infinitive | the lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without fellow; for fear; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **meet** | gerund | fear *not said here* | a bear or a snake |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent |

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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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