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title: “They must get food from somewhere,” he thought, and one morning, wh… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “They must get food from somewhere,” he thought, and one morning, when he pretended to be going out to hunt, he hid in a thicket to watch. Who acts: corner, man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 11

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“They must get food from somewhere,” he thought, and one morning, when he pretended to be going out to hunt, he hid in a thicket to watch.

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**Who acts:** corner, man · **What happens:** get, think, pretend, go out, hunt, hide · **To what, where:** food, thicket · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner, man), 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:pg3282:8:11
# text = “They must get food from somewhere,” he thought, and one morning, when he pretended to be going out to hunt, he hid in a thicket to watch.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | must | corner | food |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from somewhere=Source |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pretend** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go out** | to-infinitive · progressive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hide** | past | man |  |  | a thicket | morning |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location |
| 7 | **watch** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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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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