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title: “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is a story from Persia, where th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 15

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“What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is a story from Persia, where the people, of course, are civilised, and much like those of whom you read in “The Arabian Nights.”

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**Who acts:** Rose, you · **What happens:** do, be, civilise, read · **To what, where:** story, Persia, people · **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 (Rose, you), 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:pg3282:1:15
# text = “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is a story from Persia, where the people, of course, are civilised, and much like those of whom you read in “The Arabian Nights.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	csubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	civilised	civilise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nmod	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | past | the Rose | a story |  |  |  | to the Cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a story |  | Persia |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **civilise** | present · passive |  | the people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **read** | present | you |  |  |  | night |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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