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title: “But he must be here somewhere,” she said to herself, examining for… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “But he must be here somewhere,” she said to herself, examining for the second time the pile of buffalo skins; and Ball-Carrier, knowing that he could not possibly escape now, hastily wished that the Bad One should be unable to eat any more food at present. Who acts: bade, thief, Ball, Bad One. A se
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 31

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“But he must be here somewhere,” she said to herself, examining for the second time the pile of buffalo skins; and Ball-Carrier, knowing that he could not possibly escape now, hastily wished that the Bad One should be unable to eat any more food at present.

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**Who acts:** bade, thief, Ball, Bad One · **What happens:** be, say, examine, know, not escape, wish · **To what, where:** thief, more food, present · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bade, thief, Ball, Bad One), 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:pg3282:7:31
# text = “But he must be here somewhere,” she said to herself, examining for the second time the pile of buffalo skins; and Ball-Carrier, knowing that he could not possibly escape now, hastily wished that the Bad One should be unable to eat any more food at present.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
48	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	ccomp	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	any	any	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	amod	_	_
53	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | must | bade |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thief |  | thief |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **examine** | gerund | thief *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** | gerund | Ball and Carrier |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **escape** | could | bade |  |  |  | now | possibly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wish** | past | thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **is** | should | the Bad One |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Bad One *not said here* | more food |  | present |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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