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title: Put some bear’s grease on your beard and that will soon make it grow… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Put some bear’s grease on your beard and that will soon make it grow again.’ Who acts: you, that, grease. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 67

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Put some bear’s grease on your beard and that will soon make it grow again.’

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**Who acts:** you, that, grease · **What happens:** put, make, grow · **To what, where:** grease, beard

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, grease), 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:pg3454:24:67
# text = Put some bear’s grease on your beard and that will soon make it grow again.’
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | some bear's grease |  | your beard |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent grease=Theme on beard=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | future | that | grease |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | grease *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:** «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.

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