--- title: In a few minutes she returned, saying that he must be in the house,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a few minutes she returned, saying that he must be in the house, as she could not see any footsteps leading to the river, and began to move all the furniture in the room, without discovering Ball Carrier. Who acts: thief, bade, footsteps. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/30/) [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/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/) / 30 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 30 In a few minutes she returned, saying that he must be in the house, as she could not see any footsteps leading to the river, and began to move all the furniture in the room, without discovering Ball Carrier. **Who acts:** thief, bade, footsteps · **What happens:** return, say, be, not see, lead, begin · **To what, where:** house, footsteps, furniture, room, Ball Carrier · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thief, bade, footsteps), 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:pg3282:7:30 # text = In a few minutes she returned, saying that he must be in the house, as she could not see any footsteps leading to the river, and began to move all the furniture in the room, without discovering Ball Carrier. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 22 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 furniture furniture NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 without without SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 discovering discover VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 42 Ball Ball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 Carrier Carrier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | thief | | | | minute | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | thief *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | must | bade | | | the house | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **see** | could | thief | any footsteps | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus | | 5 | **lead** | gerund | any footsteps *not said here* | | | | | to the river | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to river=Patient | | 6 | **begin** | past | thief *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **move** | to-infinitive | thief *not said here* | all furniture | | the room | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme | | 8 | **discover** | gerund | thief *not said here* | Ball Carrier | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrier=Topic | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/31/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/)