--- title: And so they laughed and jeered, and it was so hot that the bear said… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And so they laughed and jeered, and it was so hot that the bear said, ‘The enemy won’t be here at this rate for many hours to come, so I’ll just curl myself up in the fork of the tree and have a little sleep.’ Who acts: cat, tail, bear, enemy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, tail, bear, enemy), 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:pg7277:53:38 # text = And so they laughed and jeered, and it was so hot that the bear said, ‘The enemy won’t be here at this rate for many hours to come, so I’ll just curl myself up in the fork of the tree and have a little sleep.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 jeered jeer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 conj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 curl curl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 39 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 fork fork NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | cat | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **jeer** | past | cat *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | tail | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bear | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **is** | future | the enemy | | | this rate | | here *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | many hours | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **curl up** | future | I | myself | | the fork of the tree | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | | 8 | **have** | present | cat *not said here* | a little sleep | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/39/) - ↑ back to [The War of the Wolf and the Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/53/)