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title: At length it was settled between them that three days should be give… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length it was settled between them that three days should be given to pleasant hospitality and that then should follow what had to be said and done. Who acts: that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 104

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At length it was settled between them that three days should be given to pleasant hospitality and that then should follow what had to be said and done.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** settle, give, follow, have, say, do · **To what, where:** urgency, length, three days, pleasant hospitality · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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:pg3282:1:104
# text = At length it was settled between them that three days should be given to pleasant hospitality and that then should follow what had to be said and done.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	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 | **settle** | past · passive |  | urgency |  | length |  | between drums *= drum* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **give** | should · passive |  | that three days | pleasant hospitality |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to hospitality=Recipient |
| 3 | **follow** | should | that |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |
| 6 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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