--- title: Then they recognized his voice and stood still, and when the bear wa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they recognized his voice and stood still, and when the bear was quite close to them his skin suddenly fell off, and a beautiful man stood beside them, all dressed in gold. Who acts: girls, bear, skin, beautiful man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/) / 95 # The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 95 Then they recognized his voice and stood still, and when the bear was quite close to them his skin suddenly fell off, and a beautiful man stood beside them, all dressed in gold. **Who acts:** girls, bear, skin, beautiful man · **What happens:** recognize, stand, be, fall off, dress · **To what, where:** voice, girls, all, gold This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, bear, skin, beautiful man), 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:pg503:36:95 # text = Then they recognized his voice and stood still, and when the bear was quite close to them his skin suddenly fell off, and a beautiful man stood beside them, all dressed in gold. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 recognized recognize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 quite quite ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 23 off off ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 beside beside ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognize** | past | girls *= girl* | young's voice | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **stand** | past | girls *= girl* *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the bear | | girls *= girl* | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fall off** | past | young's skin | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **stand** | past | a beautiful man | | | | | beside girls *= girl* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location | | 6 | **dress** | participle · passive | | all | | gold | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/96/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/)