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title: “Pivi and Kabo” is a tale from the brown people in the island of New… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pivi and Kabo” is a tale from the brown people in the island of New Caledonia, where a boy is never allowed to speak to or even look at his own sisters; nobody knows why, so curious are the manners of this remote island. Who acts: Pivi, boy, nobody. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 13

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“Pivi and Kabo” is a tale from the brown people in the island of New Caledonia, where a boy is never allowed to speak to or even look at his own sisters; nobody knows why, so curious are the manners of this remote island.

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**Who acts:** Pivi, boy, nobody · **What happens:** be, not allow, speak, look, know · **To what, where:** tale, boy, curious manners · **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 (Pivi, boy, nobody), 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:pg3282:1:13
# text = “Pivi and Kabo” is a tale from the brown people in the island of New Caledonia, where a boy is never allowed to speak to or even look at his own sisters; nobody knows why, so curious are the manners of this remote island.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Caledonia	Caledonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
37	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
39	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	38	ccomp	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
48	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Pivi and Kabo | a tale |  |  |  | from the brown people in the island of New Caledonia | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | a boy |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Caledonia's own sisters | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sister=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | the curious manners |  |  |  | of this remote island | tree rules |

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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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