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title: For example, the adventures of “Ball-Carrier and the Bad One” are to… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, the adventures of “Ball-Carrier and the Bad One” are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. Who acts: Red Indian grandmothers, Red Indian children. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, par
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 5

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For example, the adventures of “Ball-Carrier and the Bad One” are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink.

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**Who acts:** Red Indian grandmothers, Red Indian children · **What happens:** tell, not go, see, adventure · **To what, where:** adventures, school, pen, Ball Carrier · **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 (Red Indian grandmothers, Red Indian children), 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:pg3282:1:5
# text = For example, the adventures of “Ball-Carrier and the Bad One” are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
34	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children | the adventures of Ball Carrier and the Bad One |  |  |  | for example | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **go** | present | Red Indian children |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children *not said here* | pen and ink |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pen=Stimulus |
| 4 | **adventure** |  |  | Ball Carrier and the Bad One |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=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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