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title: The baby badgers, peeping through the door-flap after the shaggy bea… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The baby badgers, peeping through the door-flap after the shaggy bear, saw him disappear into the woods near by. Who acts: baby badgers, visitor. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 42

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The baby badgers, peeping through the door-flap after the shaggy bear, saw him disappear into the woods near by.

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**Who acts:** baby badgers, visitor · **What happens:** peep, see, disappear · **To what, where:** visitor, woods

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby badgers, visitor), 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:pg338:7:42
# text = The baby badgers, peeping through the door-flap after the shaggy bear, saw him disappear into the woods near by.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	flap	flap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	near	near	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | gerund | the baby badgers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the door flap after the shaggy bear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through flap=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the baby badgers | visitor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disappear** | infinitive | visitor *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  | near *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (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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