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title: Up there in the shelter of the trees, he began to turn over in his h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Up there in the shelter of the trees, he began to turn over in his head plans for escaping the snares of the puma. 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 41

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Up there in the shelter of the trees, he began to turn over in his head plans for escaping the snares of the puma.

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**Who acts:** puma · **What happens:** begin, turn over, escape, plan, snare · **To what, where:** head plans, snares, puma

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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:pg3282:36:41
# text = Up there in the shelter of the trees, he began to turn over in his head plans for escaping the snares of the puma.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	snares	snare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | puma |  |  | there |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn over** | to-infinitive | puma *not said here* |  |  | puma's head plans |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **escape** | gerund | puma *not said here* | the snares of the puma |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snare=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **plan** |  | puma |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **snare** |  |  | the puma |  |  |  |  | nom snare «cognition transitive»: of=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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