--- title: Brown people with long ears and thick lips, and hideously painted fa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Brown people with long ears and thick lips, and hideously painted faces, hunted a yellow-spotted tiger among the high bamboos on the shore, and the tiger turned on them and stuck its claws into one of the brown men. Who acts: Brown people, tiger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brown people, tiger), 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:pg3454:14:115 # text = Brown people with long ears and thick lips, and hideously painted faces, hunted a yellow-spotted tiger among the high bamboos on the shore, and the tiger turned on them and stuck its claws into one of the brown men. 1 Brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 hideously hideously ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 21 among among ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bamboos bamboo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | participle | | | | | | hideously *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hunt** | past | Brown people with long ears and thick lips and painted faces | a spotted tiger | | the high bamboos on the shore | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme among bamboo=Location | | 3 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **turn** | past | the tiger | | | | | on people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory | | 5 | **stick** | past | the tiger *not said here* | shore's claws | | | | into one of the brown men | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent claw=Theme into one=Destination | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/116/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/)