--- title: Soon the report went through the forest that a new animal had appear… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon the report went through the forest that a new animal had appeared from no one knew where, and that when somebody had asked his name, the strange creature had answered that it was Jack-in-the-Green. Who acts: report, new animal, one, that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sto --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/) / 47 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 47 Soon the report went through the forest that a new animal had appeared from no one knew where, and that when somebody had asked his name, the strange creature had answered that it was Jack-in-the-Green. **Who acts:** report, new animal, one, that, Jack, creature · **What happens:** go, appear, know, ask, answer, be · **To what, where:** forest, name, strange creature, Jack 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 (report, new animal, one, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:36:47 # text = Soon the report went through the forest that a new animal had appeared from no one knew where, and that when somebody had asked his name, the strange creature had answered that it was Jack-in-the-Green. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 from from SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 answered answer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 parataxis _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Green Green ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the report | | | the forest | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **appear** | past · perfect | a new animal | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** | past | no one | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | that | puma's name | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | Jack | the strange creature | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **is a** | past | creature | Jack | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | creature *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **name** | | puma | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/48/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)