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title: Then the little hare began quietly to eat Big Lion’s dinner right be… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little hare began quietly to eat Big Lion’s dinner right before his eyes, and paying no attention at all to his growls of rage. Who acts: little hare, rage. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 6

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Then the little hare began quietly to eat Big Lion’s dinner right before his eyes, and paying no attention at all to his growls of rage.

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**Who acts:** little hare, rage · **What happens:** begin, eat, pay, growl · **To what, where:** dinner, attention, all

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hare, rage), 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:pg5615:36:6
# text = Then the little hare began quietly to eat Big Lion’s dinner right before his eyes, and paying no attention at all to his growls of rage.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	growls	growl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the little hare |  |  |  | then | quietly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the little hare *not said here* | Big's dinner |  |  | before hare's eyes |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
| 3 | **pay** | gerund | the little hare *not said here* | no attention |  | all |  | to hare's growls of rage | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 4 | **growl** |  | rage |  |  |  |  |  | nom growl «event intransitive»: of=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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