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title: Without stopping to think, he went straight in, and found the innkee… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Without stopping to think, he went straight in, and found the innkeeper’s wife in the kitchen making a cake. Who acts: tavern. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 93

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Without stopping to think, he went straight in, and found the innkeeper’s wife in the kitchen making a cake.

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**Who acts:** tavern · **What happens:** stop, think, go, find, make · **To what, where:** wife, kitchen, cake

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tavern), 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:pg3282:9:93
# text = Without stopping to think, he went straight in, and found the innkeeper’s wife in the kitchen making a cake.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund | tavern *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | tavern *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | tavern |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | tavern *not said here* | the innkeeper's wife |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | tavern *not said here* | a cake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product |

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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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