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title: For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that, however sound asleep the boy-brother might LOOK, he was sure to have one eye open; but gradually he began to edge closer to the opening, and at last gave such a toss that the ball went up high into the air, and he could not see wha
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 10

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For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that, however sound asleep the boy-brother might LOOK, he was sure to have one eye open; but gradually he began to edge closer to the opening, and at last gave such a toss that the ball went up high into the air, and he could not see what became of it.

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**Who acts:** lion, you, boy brother, ball · **What happens:** toss up, feel, sound, look, be, have · **To what, where:** ball, that, one eye, edge, toss, last · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, you, boy brother, ball), 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:pg3282:29:10
# text = For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that, however sound asleep the boy-brother might LOOK, he was sure to have one eye open; but gradually he began to edge closer to the opening, and at last gave such a toss that the ball went up high into the air, and he could not see what became of it.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sound	sound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	LOOK	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
50	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
51	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	53	det:predet	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	toss	toss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
58	up	up	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	advmod	_	_
60	into	into	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
65	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
66	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
67	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	68	advmod	_	_
68	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
69	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	70	nsubj	_	_
70	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	68	ccomp	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss up** | past | the lion | ball |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | the lion *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a long; asleep, however *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** | might | the boy brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | lion |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | lion *not said here* | one eye |  |  |  | open *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 7 | **begin** | past | lion | edge |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Eventuality |
| 8 | **give** | past | lion *not said here* | such toss |  | last |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent toss=Theme at last=Asset |
| 9 | **go up** | past | the ball |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 10 | **not** **see** | could | lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 11 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of ball | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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