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title: As they came up to them, the puma whispered: “Go on in front, friend… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they came up to them, the puma whispered: “Go on in front, friend stag, and just say ‘Bad luck to all workers!’” Who acts: men, puma. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, 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 4, sentence 2

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As they came up to them, the puma whispered: “Go on in front, friend stag, and just say ‘Bad luck to all workers!’”

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**Who acts:** men, puma · **What happens:** come up, whisper, go, say · **To what, where:** them, friend stag, front, Bad luck, workers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, 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:pg3282:37:2
# text = As they came up to them, the puma whispered: “Go on in front, friend stag, and just say ‘Bad luck to all workers!’”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	puma	puma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | men *= man* |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: express* | past | the puma |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | friend stag |  | front |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on front=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Bad luck | all workers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent luck=Topic to worker=Recipient |

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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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