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title: Before long the bear was left so far behind that he saw he might as… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Before long the bear was left so far behind that he saw he might as well give up the hunt first as last, so he stretched himself out by the roadside to rest. Who acts: bear. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 54

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Before long the bear was left so far behind that he saw he might as well give up the hunt first as last, so he stretched himself out by the roadside to rest.

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**Who acts:** bear · **What happens:** long, leave, see, give up, stretch out, rest · **To what, where:** bear, hunt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7439:34:54
# text = Before long the bear was left so far behind that he saw he might as well give up the hunt first as last, so he stretched himself out by the roadside to rest.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	long	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	fixed	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | gerund |  | the bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **see** | past | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give up** | might | bear | the hunt |  |  |  | first *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Source |
| 5 | **stretch out** | past | bear | bear |  |  |  | by the roadside | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 6 | **rest** | to-infinitive | bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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