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title: When the Princess heard the bear growling so loud that night, she ma… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Princess heard the bear growling so loud that night, she made sure he was roaring with delight as he worried the tailor. Who acts: Princess, bear. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 44

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When the Princess heard the bear growling so loud that night, she made sure he was roaring with delight as he worried the tailor.

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**Who acts:** Princess, bear · **What happens:** hear, growl, make, roar, worry · **To what, where:** bear, tailor

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bear), 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:pg7277:51:44
# text = When the Princess heard the bear growling so loud that night, she made sure he was roaring with delight as he worried the tailor.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the Princess | the bear |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus |
| 2 | **growl** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  | night | loud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **roar** | past · progressive | bear |  |  |  |  | with delight | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme |
| 5 | **worry** | past | bear | the tailor |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tailor=Experiencer |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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