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title: And no more there would have been if the puma had had greater patien… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And no more there would have been if the puma had had greater patience; but in his excitement he moved a little too soon. Who acts: puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 37

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And no more there would have been if the puma had had greater patience; but in his excitement he moved a little too soon.

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**Who acts:** puma · **What happens:** have, move, excite · **To what, where:** puma, little, excitement

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma), 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:pg3282:36:37
# text = And no more there would have been if the puma had had greater patience; but in his excitement he moved a little too soon.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would · perfect · passive |  | the puma |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | past | puma | a little |  | puma's excitement |  | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in excitement=Trajectory |
| 3 | **excite** |  | puma |  |  |  |  |  | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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