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title: The lion at once sprang towards them with a loud roar, but the deer… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lion at once sprang towards them with a loud roar, but the deer bounded away, and they were all three soon lost to sight. Who acts: lion. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 96

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The lion at once sprang towards them with a loud roar, but the deer bounded away, and they were all three soon lost to sight.

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**Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** spring, bound away, lose · **To what, where:** lion, deer

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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 (lion), 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:pg3282:28:96
# text = The lion at once sprang towards them with a loud roar, but the deer bounded away, and they were all three soon lost to sight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | gerund | the lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Lion; with a loud roar; once *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |
| 2 | **bound away** | participle · passive |  | the lion |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past · passive |  | deer |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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