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title: The tale of “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is translated out of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tale of “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is translated out of a Persian manuscript by Mrs. Beveridge. Who acts: Rose, Persian manuscript. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 21

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The tale of “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is translated out of a Persian manuscript by Mrs. Beveridge.

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**Who acts:** Rose, Persian manuscript · **What happens:** do, translate · **To what, where:** tale

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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, Persian manuscript), 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:pg3282:1:21
# text = The tale of “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is translated out of a Persian manuscript by Mrs. Beveridge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Cypress	cypress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Beveridge	Beveridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 |  |  |  |  | to the Cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **translate** | present · passive | a Persian manuscript by Mrs. | the tale |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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