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title: All this time they had had no dinner, for the snake’s flesh was not… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time they had had no dinner, for the snake’s flesh was not nice, and the lion did not like eating bear—perhaps because he never felt sure that the bear was REALLY dead, and would not jump up alive when his enemy went near him. Who acts: ears, flesh, lion, snake. A sentence of «The Brown Fai
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 91

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All this time they had had no dinner, for the snake’s flesh was not nice, and the lion did not like eating bear—perhaps because he never felt sure that the bear was REALLY dead, and would not jump up alive when his enemy went near him.

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**Who acts:** ears, flesh, lion, snake, bear, enemy · **What happens:** have, not be, not like, eat, not feel, be · **To what, where:** dinner, eating 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 (ears, flesh, lion, snake), 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:pg3282:28:91
# text = All this time they had had no dinner, for the snake’s flesh was not nice, and the lion did not like eating bear—perhaps because he never felt sure that the bear was REALLY dead, and would not jump up alive when his enemy went near him.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
25	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
33	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	REALLY	really	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
45	up	up	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
51	near	near	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · perfect | ears *= ear* | no dinner |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the snake's flesh |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | the lion | eating bear |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bear=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **feel** | past | snake |  |  |  |  | perhaps, sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past | the bear |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **jump up** | would | snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **go** | past | snake's enemy |  |  |  |  | near snake | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=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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