--- title: Preface What the Rose did to the Cypress Footnotes Ball-carrier and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Preface What the Rose did to the Cypress Footnotes Ball-carrier and the Bad One How Ball-carrier Finished His Task The Bunyip Father Grumbler The Story of the Yara The Cunning Hare The Turtle and His Bride How Geirald The Coward Was Punished Hábogi How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/) / 25 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 25 Preface What the Rose did to the Cypress Footnotes Ball-carrier and the Bad One How Ball-carrier Finished His Task The Bunyip Father Grumbler The Story of the Yara The Cunning Hare The Turtle and His Bride How Geirald The Coward Was Punished Hábogi How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé The Wicked Wolverine The Husband of the Rat’s Daughter The Mermaid and the Boy Pivi and Kabo The Elf Maiden How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones Fortune and the Wood-Cutter The Enchanted Head The Sister of the Sun The Prince and the Three Fates The Fox and the Lapp Kisa the Cat The Lion and the Cat Which was the Foolishest? **Who acts:** Ball carrier, Coward, Wild Animals, Cat · **What happens:** finish, punish, become, be · **To what, where:** Task, Hábogi 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 (Ball carrier, Coward, Wild Animals, Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:1:25 # text = Preface What the Rose did to the Cypress Footnotes Ball-carrier and the Bad One How Ball-carrier Finished His Task The Bunyip Father Grumbler The Story of the Yara The Cunning Hare The Turtle and His Bride How Geirald The Coward Was Punished Hábogi How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers The Sacred Milk of Koumongoé The Wicked Wolverine The Husband of the Rat’s Daughter The Mermaid and the Boy Pivi and Kabo The Elf Maiden How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones Fortune and the Wood-Cutter The Enchanted Head The Sister of the Sun The Prince and the Three Fates The Fox and the Lapp Kisa the Cat The Lion and the Cat Which was the Foolishest? 1 Preface preface NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 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 AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 Cypress Cypress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Footnotes Footnote PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 12 compound _ _ 10 Ball Ball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - 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- PUNCT HYPH _ 93 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 95 Cutter Cutter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 90 conj _ _ 96 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 98 det _ _ 97 Enchanted Enchanted PROPN NNP Number=Sing 98 compound _ _ 98 Head Head PROPN NNP Number=Sing 95 appos _ _ 99 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 100 det _ _ 100 Sister Sister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 90 conj _ _ 101 of of ADP IN _ 103 case _ _ 102 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 103 det _ _ 103 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 100 nmod _ _ 104 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 105 det _ _ 105 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 100 appos _ _ 106 and and CCONJ CC _ 109 cc _ _ 107 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 109 det _ _ 108 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 109 compound _ _ 109 Fates Fate PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 90 conj _ _ 110 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 111 det _ _ 111 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 109 appos _ _ 112 and and CCONJ CC _ 117 cc _ _ 113 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 115 det _ _ 114 Lapp Lapp PROPN NNP Number=Sing 115 compound _ _ 115 Kisa Kisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 117 compound _ _ 116 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 117 det _ _ 117 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 109 conj _ _ 118 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 119 det _ _ 119 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 117 appos _ _ 120 and and CCONJ CC _ 122 cc _ _ 121 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 122 det _ _ 122 Cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 119 conj _ _ 123 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 126 nsubj _ _ 124 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 126 cop _ _ 125 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 126 det _ _ 126 Foolishest foolish ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 122 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 127 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past | Ball carrier | Rose's Task | | | | Story Hare the Cunning and the Turtle *obl* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality task=Eventuality | | 2 | **punish** | past | Coward | Hábogi | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hábogi=Patient | | 3 | **become** | past | some Wild Animals | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | the Cat | | | | | foolish *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/26/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/)