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title: Big Lion did as he was told, and when he had lain down the little ha… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Big Lion did as he was told, and when he had lain down the little hare got up on a wall blew a trumpet and shouted-- Who acts: Big Lion, lion. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 91

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Big Lion did as he was told, and when he had lain down the little hare got up on a wall blew a trumpet and shouted--

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**Who acts:** Big Lion, lion · **What happens:** do, tell, lie down, get up, blow, shout · **To what, where:** lion, little hare, wall, trumpet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big Lion, lion), 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:pg5615:35:91
# text = Big Lion did as he was told, and when he had lain down the little hare got up on a wall blew a trumpet and shouted--
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	parataxis	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Big Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | lion |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **lie down** | past · perfect | lion | the little hare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get up** | participle |  | the little hare *not said here* |  | a wall |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on wall=Source |
| 5 | **blow** | past | Big Lion *not said here* | a trumpet |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent trumpet=Patient |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Big Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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